AI for Robotic Surgery: Tse'ela Mida of Intuitive

Description

Tse'ela Mida is a product manager at Intuitive, the company behind the da Vinci robotic surgical system — installed in more than ten thousand hospitals across 70+ countries, with over 15 million robotic procedures performed. In the episode she describes her path from neuroscience, through 12 years at a radiology company where she started as a software tester and implemented systems inside hospitals, to managing AI products for robotic surgery. The conversation dives into how AI fits into a life-saving product, how you measure success when your users are surgeons, regulation as a product challenge, building a "Data Factory" — a clinical team that labels medical data to train models — and a future in which AI alerts in real time inside the operating room.