Intuitive

Intuitive is an American corporation that manufactures robotic products designed to improve clinical outcomes of patients through minimally invasive surgery, most notably with the da Vinci Surgical System.
==History==
The research that eventually led to the development of the da Vinci Surgical System was performed in the late 1980s at a non-profit research institute SRI International. In 1990, SRI received funding from the National Institutes of Health. SRI developed a prototype robotic surgical system that caught the interest of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which was interested in the system for its potential to allow surgeons to operate remotely on soldiers wounded on the battlefield.
In 1995, a new company was incorporated and named Intuitive Surgical Devices, Inc.https://www.companieshistory.com/intuitive-surgical
Shortly before going public, Intuitive Surgical was sued for patent infringement by Computer Motion, Inc, its chief rival. Computer Motion had gotten into the robotic surgery field earlier than Intuitive Surgical, with its own system, the ZEUS Robotic Surgical System. Although the ZEUS system was approved in Europe, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had not yet approved it for any procedure at the time that the FDA first approved the da Vinci system. The uncertainty created by the litigation between the companies was a drag on each company's growth. In 2003, Intuitive Surgical and Computer Motion agreed to merge, thus ending the litigation between them. The ZEUS system was ultimately phased out in favor of the da Vinci system. Computer Motion was led by Chairman Robert Duggan from 1990 until 2003, when the two companies merged.https://isrg.intuitive.com/news-releases/news-release-details/intuitive-surgical-and-computer-motion-close-merger-intuitive#:~:text=This%20merger%20combines%20the%20intellectual,patients%2C%20surgeons%2C%20and%20medical%20centers
==Channel==
The channel was created on October 31, 2013, and the first video was uploaded on September 2, 2014.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBpziIkElD4&t=5s The channel uploads videos of the simulator and commercials of their products.
==References==
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2013