Intuitive Surgical Inc., lauréat du prix vaudois des entreprises internationales 2020

Intuitive, a US company that set up its European headquarters in Aubonne (Switzerland) about 14 years ago, is the winner in the Best Foreign Company category of Vaud International Business Awards. The company has developed a pioneering system for minimally invasive, robotic-assisted surgery, called da Vinci ®. Launched in 1999, da Vinci ® was the first such system to receive the CE mark and to obtain market approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It employs advanced technology that scales, filters and translates a surgeon’s hand motions into more precise movements. The system is used in nearly 70 countries, and over 52,000 surgeons around the world have been trained on it. Some 40 da Vinci ® systems are installed in Switzerland.