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FDA Class II recall: RoboCouch Patient Positioning System

S3 · 27 Mar 2013 · Accuray

Record

Company	Accuray
Industry	Medical robotics
Type(s)	recall
Date	27 Mar 2013 (day precision)
Time of day	not documented
Location	no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
Severity	(recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
Scale	RoboCouch Patient Positioning System
Confidence	high
Verified flag	Yes - independently re-checked against the cited source

Summary

FDA enforcement record (Class II, recall Z-1155-2013): A5 gearboxes responsible for pitch (head up and head down) and roll (patient left and right) motions of the RoboCouch manipulator may be defective.

Primary source

openFDA enforcement

Publisher: openFDA enforcement · Retrieved: 2026-09-16

Supporting source rows (1)

Date	Supporting source row	Publisher	Link
27 Mar 2013	FDA Class II recall: RoboCouch Patient Positioning System	openFDA enforcement	openFDA enforcement

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