February 18, 2026 – Medtronic declares that the primary U.S. industrial surgical case utilizing the lately FDA-approved Hugo™ Robotic-Assisted Surgical procedure (RAS) System has been efficiently carried out by Jihad Kaouk, MD, professor and chairman of the Glickman Urologic Institute and the Zegarac-Pollock Endowed Chair in Robotic Surgical procedure on the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Kaouk efficiently accomplished a robot-assisted prostatectomy and the affected person was discharged the day after surgical procedure.

Urology has led the way in which within the adoption of robotic expertise, with roughly 80% of urological stomach surgical procedures within the US in the present day being carried out utilizing a robotic system. This excessive adoption charge has created a neighborhood of surgeons with intensive expertise in robot-assisted procedures who can be found to help coaching as new expertise such because the Hugo RAS system turns into accessible. That is essential as robot-assisted approaches have gotten extra frequent in lots of specialties and hospitals are searching for options to handle capability points.

The Hugo RAS System’s cell footprint with modular arms may also help handle working room scheduling challenges and infrastructure limitations, giving extra sufferers entry to the well-documented advantages of minimally invasive care, together with lowered blood loss, shorter hospital stays, quicker restoration time and fewer postoperative ache.

Cleveland Clinic is actively researching and implementing new robotic approaches. Their crew, led by Dr. Kaouk as principal investigator, was a part of the Increase URO Investigational Machine Exemption (IDE) medical trial – the biggest ever accomplished for multi-port robot-assisted urological surgical procedure within the US. Increase URO demonstrated that the Hugo RAS System met major security and effectiveness endpoints in urologic surgical procedures, with outcomes in step with revealed literature.

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