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GTC SJ 2026: Physical AI for Healthcare Robotics - Simulation-First Design & Accelerated Development

2026-08-10 · 7 company · 4 thematic

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filipo fukori

Practicing surgeon leading robotic surgery fellowship at largest Northeast US health system. Runs predictive analytics lab for surgical performance. Collaborates with NVIDIA on surgical ontologies, Cosmos simulation, and video-language models for surgical data annotation.

axel

Academic surgical roboticist publishing in Science Robotics (2022, 2024). Founded Semor Surgical to commercialize autonomous soft tissue surgery. Built largest open surgical robotics dataset (150k trajectories). Collaborates with NVIDIA on Groot fine-tuning and Cosmos world models.

yossi

Swiss medtech founder addressing orthopedic surgeon shortage with FDA-cleared dual-arm humanoid robot. Instrument/implant agnostic architecture. Uses NVIDIA simulation stack (Cosmos, Isaac SIM) for scalable training before OR deployment. Focus on hard tissue (spine, joints, long bones).

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