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Field safety notice for Hugo surgeon console power supply failure
S2 · ~Jun 2025 · Medtronic Hugo
Record
| Company | Medtronic Hugo |
| Industry | Medical robotics |
| Type(s) | malfunction |
| Date | ~Jun 2025 (month precision) |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | (minor injury or single-unit damage) |
| Scale | 25 complaints, subset of Hugo consoles in Europe |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verified flag | Cited source on file; not independently re-verified |
Summary
Medtronic issued an urgent field safety notice in Europe (also filed with German and Irish regulators) after 25 complaints of power supply failure in the Hugo RAS surgeon console, which could cause permanent loss of the ability to teleoperate the system before or during a procedure; Medtronic reported zero instances of serious patient harm and continued use was deemed appropriate pending inspection/servicing.
Primary source
Publisher: MassDevice · Retrieved: 2026-09-16
Supporting source rows (1)
| Date | Supporting source row | Publisher | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| ~Jun 2025 | Field safety notice for Hugo surgeon console power supply failure | MassDevice | MassDevice |
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