Intuitive laying off 331 workers in California

Source: roboticsbusinessreview
Author: @therobotreport
Published: 8/27/2025
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Read original articleIntuitive Surgical has announced a permanent layoff of 331 employees at its Sunnyvale, California headquarters, effective October 27, 2025. The company filed a WARN notice with California officials on August 21, citing the cessation of graveyard and weekend shifts for the production of its Ion instruments and accessories, along with related logistics and quality operations. These shifts will end on October 23 and 24, 2025, respectively, and the company will transition from a 4×10 to a 5×8 shift schedule for all production teams in Sunnyvale. The layoffs represent just over 2% of Intuitive’s total workforce of 15,638 employees. The majority of affected roles include assembly technicians, manufacturing leads, material handlers, and trainers.
The affected positions are tied to the production of the Ion robotic bronchoscopy system, a minimally invasive, catheter-based platform cleared by the FDA in 2019 that enables precise lung biopsies using fiber optic shape sensor technology.
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