Nvidia is using AI to help surgical robots interpret situations in real time, in partnership with French-American firm Moon Surgical.

Moon is expanding its long-standing collaboration with Nvidia to advance the Maestro robotic system’s physical AI capabilities through the Nvidia Isaac for Healthcare platform.

By integrating AI-driven abilities to perceive, understand and interact with the world around it, Maestro is evolving beyond traditional robotic assistance to interpret, adapt and enhance surgical workflows actively in real time.

This collaboration strengthens Moon’s position for physical AI in the operating room, leveraging its Maestro platform positioned between the surgeon and the patient to unlock opportunities to digitise surgery at its core and improve efficiency across the surgical ecosystem.

“We’re excited for the release of Nvidia Isaac for Healthcare, which will help us add even more perceptive and intelligent capabilities to evolve the practice of surgery on our digital and AI native architecture,” said Anne Osdoit, CEO of Moon Surgical. “Instead of training our AI using real OR data, we’ll be able to simulate various OR environments, use them to generate synthetic data via intra and perioperative experiences to ultimately train our AI to understand and interact with the physical world around it.”

Maestro leverages the Nvidia Holoscan (developer.nvidia.com/holoscan-sdk) platform for real-time sensor processing powered by Nvidia IGX. Integrating Isaac for Healthcare (developer.nvidia.com/isaac) should help Moon safely and efficiently design, test and deploy intelligent capabilities on Maestro.

“Isaac for Healthcare aims to expand possibilities for companies such as Moon Surgical to bring physical AI into the next generation of surgical robotics,” said David Niewolny, director of business development for medtech at Nvidia (www.nvidia.com). “This platform has the potential to accelerate development cycles, reduce cost and speed time to market, while ensuring safe and effective system testing and deployment.”

Moon has developed and deployed multiple AI features within an agentic AI Maestro demonstrator, including the ability to render OR environments where Maestro operates into digital twins, enabling workflow analysis and compliance to surgeons’ preferences, capabilities that are critical for optimising operative efficiency and ensuring on-time procedure starts.

Founded in 2020, Moon Surgical (www.moonsurgical.com) is based in Paris, France, and San Francisco, California.