The dVRK controllers have been built in batches as the community grew over the years. You can locate all these sites on the dVRK Google Map.
Details regarding the different builds can be found in the board versions page.
| Hardware batch | Year | University | PIs | # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0, 1, 3, SUJ dVRK, da Vinci |
2004-2014 | Johns Hopkins Univ. | Peter Kazanzides & Russell Taylor | 1 |
| 1, SUJ dVRK, da Vinci |
2012 | Worcester Polytechnic Inst. | Greg Fischer | 2 |
| 1 dVRK |
2012 | Stanford Univ. | Allison Okamura | 3 |
| 1 da Vinci |
2012 | Univ. of British Columbia | Tim Salcudean | 4 |
| 2 dVRK |
2013 | U.C. Berkeley | Ken Goldberg & Pieter Abbeel | 5 |
| 2 dVRK |
2013 | Carnegie Mellon Univ. | Howie Choset | 6 |
| 2 dVRK |
2013 | Vanderbilt Univ. | Nabil Simaan | 7 |
| 2 dVRK |
2013 | Clemson University (originally SUNY Buffalo) |
Venkat Krovi | 8 |
| 2 da Vinci |
2013 | Univ. W. Ontario/CSTAR | Rajni Patel | 9 |
| 2 dVRK |
2013 | Hospital for Sick Kids, Toronto | Jim Drake, M.D. | 10 |
| 2 da Vinci |
2013 | Intuitive Surgical Research | Simon DiMaio | 11 |
| 3, 5 da Vinci |
2014, 2016 | Imperial College | Guang-Zhong Yang & Philip Pratt | 12 |
| 3, 7 da Vinci |
2014, 2019 | Univ. College, London | Dan Stoyanov | 13 |
| 3 dVRK |
2014 | Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna | Arianna Menciassi | 14 |
| 3 dVRK |
2014 | Seoul National Univ. | Sungwan Kim | 15 |
| 3 da Vinci |
2014 | Óbuda Univ., Budapest | Tamás Haidegger | 16 |
| 4 da Vinci |
2015 | Wayne State Univ. | Abhilash Pandya | 17 |
| 4 da Vinci |
2015 | University of Texas at Austin (originally CNMC) |
Farshid Alambeigi | 18 |
| 4 da Vinci |
2015 | University of Verona | Paolo Fiorini | 19 |
| 4 da Vinci |
2015 | National Institutes of Health | Sheng Xu | 20 |
| - da Vinci |
2016 | Management Center Innsbruck | Yeongmi Kim | 21 |
| 5 da Vinci |
2016 | Case Western Reserve Univ. | Cenk Cavusoglu | 22 |
| 5, 7, 8 da Vinci |
2016, 2019 2020 |
U.C. San Diego | Michael Yip Tania Morimoto |
23 |
| 5 dVRK |
2016 | Ben Gurion Univ. | Ilana Nisky | 24 |
| 5 da Vinci |
2016 | Univ. of Naples | Bruno Siciliano | 25 |
| 5 da Vinci |
2016 | Cleveland Clinic | Robb Colbrunn | 26 |
| 5 da Vinci |
2016 | Politecnico di Milano | Elena De Momi | 27 |
| 5, 6 dVRK, da Vinci |
2016, 2017 | Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong | Yunhui Liu, Philip Chiu, Samuel Au | 28 |
| 6 dVRK |
2017 | University of Texas, Dallas | Ann Majewicz Fey | 29 |
| 6 da Vinci |
2017 | University of Leeds | Pietro Valdastri | 30 |
| 6 da Vinci |
2017 | Hochschule Reutlingen | Lars Schmidt | 31 |
| 7 da Vinci |
2019 | University of Maryland | Axel Krieger | 32 |
| 7 dVRK |
2019 | University of Alberta | Mahdi Tavakoli | 33 |
| 7 da Vinci |
2019 | Purdue University | Juan Wachs, Denny Yu | 34 |
| 7 da Vinci |
2019 | Wake Forest | Philip Brown | 35 |
| 7 da Vinci S MTMs |
2019 | surgnova.com | Jindi Zhang | 36 |
| 8 da Vinci |
2021 | University of Illinois, Chicago | Liaohai Leo Chen | 37 |
| 8 dVRK |
2021 | University of Twente | Sarthak Misra | 38 |
| 8 da Vinci |
2021 | University of Torino | Alberto Arezzo | 39 |