Applications
Surgical Robot
A surgical robot is a medical robotic system that assists or performs surgical procedures, exemplified by Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci, a teleoperated platform for minimally invasive surgery providing tremor filtering, motion scaling, and wristed instruments under surgeon control. Research systems push toward autonomy — the STAR robot demonstrated supervised autonomous intestinal anastomosis — and the open da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) supports academic work on surgical automation and shared control.
Why it matters for physical AI
Surgery sets the ceiling for precision, latency, and safety validation in teleoperation and shared autonomy, and its regulatory pathway previews how high-stakes robot autonomy gets certified.
Build physical AI
Put these concepts to work on real hardware
Axol is a dual-arm robot built for physical AI — teleoperate it, collect demonstrations, and deploy learned policies out of the box.