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NICE find! This confirms (sort of) that the Covidien robotic is/was called Einstein (see patent comment on chart p 18 )....ENOS?!

Also the article gives away some detail about the covidien robot...that its a bedside mount 3 arm....

Upcoming Robotic Systems: Ongoing Projects
Medtronic
In 2010, experimental results of MiroSurge (German Aerospace Centre, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany) were published [39,40]. In 2013, Covedien (Dublin, Ireland) acquired the licence for its commercial use, and included further developments in their two research and development centres in the USA [41]. Since Medtronic completed the acquisition of Covidien in 2015, the company became able to develop all necessary instruments [42], and it is currently working on the 10th prototype of this system.
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MiroSurge consisted of three lightweight arms mounted on the operating table, and an open console with the surgeon sitting in front of an autofocusing monitor (Fig. 3B). The robotic arms are composed of seven joints with serial kinematics, comparable to human arms. Instruments are driven by micro-motors (Fig. 6B), optionally providing tactile feedback via potentiometers.
Patents were registered in 2012 and 2013 (Appendix 1 and Table 2). Medtronic plans to initiate clinical trials in India and to launch the device in the USA in 2018 [42].