Company: ISRG
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001035267-25-000098
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Company: INTUITIVE SURGICAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-14
Form: DEF 14A
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 access our proxy materials online. The Notice also contains instructions on how to request a copy of our proxy materials, including the attached Proxy Statement, our 2024 Annual Report, and a form of proxy card or voting instruction card.

#### Attendance at the Annual Meeting in Person
To attend and participate in the Annual Meeting in person, you will need to present valid photo identification, such as a driver’s license or passport, and proof of stock ownership as of the record date. If your shares are held in the name of a bank, broker, or other holder of record, you should bring your bank or brokerage statement evidencing your beneficial ownership of Intuitive Surgical, Inc. stock to gain admission to the meeting. We reserve the right to deny admittance to anyone who cannot show valid identification or sufficient proof of share ownership as of March 3, 2025. If you will attend the Annual Meeting in person, please check in at the reception desk at 1020 Kifer Road, Sunnyvale, California 94086 by 2:45 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. Admission to the Annual Meeting in

person will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Late arrivals will not be permitted to attend the Annual Meeting in person. The use of cell phones, smartphones, recording and photographic equipment, and/or computers is not permitted in the meeting room at the Annual Meeting.

Your vote is important! Whether or not you are able to attend the Annual Meeting in person or virtually online, it is important that your shares be represented. Please vote as soon as possible.

On behalf of our Board of Directors, thank you for your participation in this important annual process.

| Date: |     | March 14, 2025        |     | By order of the Board of Directors 
 /s/ Gary S. Guthart, Ph.D.         |
|:------|:----|:----------------------|:----|:-----------------------------------|
|       |     | Sunnyvale, California |     | Gary S. Guthart, Ph.D.             |
|       |     |                       |     | Chief Executive Officer            |

Please note that attendance at the Annual Meeting, whether in person or virtually online, will be limited to stockholders as of the record date, or their authorized representatives, and guests of Intuitive.

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### LETTER FROM THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dear Fellow Shareholders,

2024 was another year of strong growth, value creation, and leadership in advancing minimally invasive care