At this year’s Medtech MVP, a panel of industry experts explored how robotics are changing healthcare beyond the operating room. Robotic technologies are being deployed across inpatient care, rehabilitation, logistics, and remote patient support. Moderated by Virginia L. Giddings of Edwards Lifesciences, the panel includes Amanda Baumann of Stryker; Nir Goldenberg of Mayo Clinic Ventures; Kate Jackson Hobbs of Intuitive; and Maggie Nixon of Capstan Medical. Together they discuss the workforce, financial, and reimbursement considerations shaping adoption and how AI advancement will affect the future of robotics. Medtech Talk Links: Cambridge Healthtech Institute Medtech Talk Medtech MVP Edwards Lifesciences: Edwards Lifesciences Stryker: Stryker Mayo Clinic: Mayo Clinic Intuitive: Intuitive Capstan Medical: Captstan Medical

Episode: 206 - Medtech MVP 2026: How Health Systems are Adopting Robotics Across Care Settings 

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At this year's Medtech MVP, a panel of industry experts explored how robotics are changing healthcare beyond the operating room. From addressing workforce shortages to enhancing care delivery, robotic technologies are being deployed across inpatient care, rehabilitation, logistics and remote patient support.

Moderated by Virginia Giddings with Edwards Life Sciences, the panel included Amanda Ballman at Stryker, Nir Goldenberg at Mayo Clinic Ventures, Kate Jackson Hobbs at Intuitive, and Maggie Nixon of Capstan Medical. Let's listen in.

Moderated by Virginia Giddings Well, it's great to see you all again. Yes. And I think just to start, I'd like each of you to briefly introduce yourselves and give the audience a feel for sort of the lens that you look at robotics from. And maybe we'll start with Nir here. Nir Goldenberg Sure. Happy to kick us off here. Nir Goldenberg. I'm a member of the executive team and senior director with Mayo Clinic Business Development, aka Mayo Clinic Ventures.

Nir Goldenberg. Mayo Clinic Ventures is both the TTO and the health system venture arm for Mayo Clinic. We lead technology development, investments, commercialization and strategic partnerships for the organization. Regarding robotics, we are actually in a pretty unique, I would say, position since we are representing both the end customer in the context of adoption of novel and innovative robotic solutions.

Nir Goldenberg. But we are also, of course, working closely with the ecosystem, both with strategics and with startups in the context of early stage investments and co-creation innovation. And we are also, we're trying, we're doing our best to lead the way with developing our own internal robotic technologies that are coming out of Mayo, out of our research labs. So we're kind of uniquely positioned on both sides of the equation here.

Episode: 206 - Medtech MVP 2026: How Health Systems are Adopting Robotics Across Care Settings

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Episode: 206 - Medtech MVP 2026: How Health Systems are Adopting Robotics Across Care Settings

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The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.