30 October 2025 | News
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Testing to focus on the potential to deliver real-time, AI-powered insights that improve patient outcomes and support continuous learning for surgeons
CMR Surgical (‘CMR’), the global surgical robotics business, announces it is an early adopter of NVIDIA IGXThor as it evaluates its integration into the Versius Surgical Robotic System.
IGX Thor is NVIDIA’s latest and most powerful platform designed for physical AI and robotics, delivering up to 5,581 FP4 TFLOPS of AI compute with 400 GBe of connectivity, offering more compute power, better energy efficiency and awareness compared with previous platforms.
A pioneer in surgical robotic innovation, CMR’s goal is to improve patient outcomes by leveraging its data with AI to deliver insights and recommendations in real time, at the point of care. Ultimately, we aim to enable the data captured from every Versius procedure to improve all surgeries. Working closely with NVIDIA, CMR will evaluate IGX Thor’s AI capabilities for the next-generation of Versius, bringing intelligent surgical support to enhance surgeons’ capabilities and democratise minimally invasive surgery.
Versius captures extensive telematic, video and patient outcome data through its digital ecosystem to deliver meaningful insights to surgeons and hospitals. Today, Versius delivers those insights through the Versius Connect app, Versius Team and Customer dashboards, with the goal of supporting improved surgical care.
Chris Fryer, Chief Technology Officer at CMR Surgical, commented: “Today’s announcement reflects our strategic intent in leveraging the formidable potential of AI and represents a further step forward in our mission to deliver real-time insights that improve outcomes. The goal of AI isn’t to replace surgeons, but to empower them. We're excited to explore how NVIDIA IGX Thor can revolutionise the AI capabilities within the Versius ecosystem and look forward to continuing to work closely with the NVIDIA team.”
Versius is a unique, versatile and adaptable surgical robot designed to seamlessly and easily integrate into any operating room and hospital workflow. The system has performed c.40,000 surgical cases to date and is being used across a broad range of specialties including urology, general surgery, gynaecology, and thoracic surgery in leading hospitals around the world. Versius can be easily moved between departments, making it suitable for any care setting from low acuity, high-volume cases to the most complex oncological surgical procedures.
