Company: ISRG
Filing Date: 2025-07-23
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0001035267-25-000194
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Company: INTUITIVE SURGICAL INC
Filing Date: 2025-07-23
Form: S-8
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### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

#### FORM S-8
<div align='center'>REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933</div>

#### INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC.
<div align='center'>(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)</div>

| Delaware                 
 (State of Incorporation) |     | 77-0416458                           
 (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) |

#### 1020 Kifer Road

#### Sunnyvale, California 94086
<div align='center'>(Address of Principal Executive Offices including Zip Code)</div>

<div align='center'>AMENDED AND RESTATED INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. 2010 INCENTIVE AWARD PLAN

(Full Title of the Plan)</div>

| David J. Rosa               
 Chief Executive Officer     
 Intuitive Surgical, Inc.    
 1020 Kifer Road             
 Sunnyvale, California 94086 
 (408) 523-2100              |     | Copy to:                     
 Mark V. Roeder               
 John C. Williams             
 Latham & Watkins LLP         
 140 Scott Drive              
 Menlo Park, California 94025 
 (650) 328-4600               |

<div align='center'>(Name, Address, Including Zip Code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code for Agent for Service)</div>

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer |     | x |     | Accelerated filer         |     | ¨ |
| Non-accelerated filer   |     | ¨ |     | Smaller reporting company |     | ¨ |
|                         |     |   |     | Emerging growth company   |     | ¨ |

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ¨

### REGISTRATION OF ADDITIONAL SEC