Vicarious vanished, while Intuitive’s da Vinci grew into a $10B-a-year robotics giant
philfung · x · 2026-07-23
A comparison of two surgical robotics companies highlights how hard commercialization is in robotics.
- Vicarious’ robot never reached market and the company was ultimately liquidated.
- Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci, by contrast, has become the field’s biggest success story and generates more than $10B a year.
The point is the gulf between a promising robot program and a robot business that actually scales.
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