The most common bedside procedure you never see

The most common bedside procedure in U.S. hospitals is also the least visible: threading a feeding tube into a patient by feel, with no screen to show where the tip is going. The Robot Report's interview with ENvue Medical CEO Dr. Doron Besser frames ENvue Drive as one company's attempt to drag that workflow into the light, layering a robotic insertion step onto the company's already-cleared electromagnetic navigation platform so the tube's path appears on a monitor instead of in a clinician's hand.

The mechanism beneath the device is the actual story. The ENvue Navigation Platform has been 510(k)-cleared since 2019 and is already deployed at multi-hospital U.S. networks, including a recently renewed three-year contract at a twelve-hospital system. Adding a robot on top of an installed navigation base is a different bet than launching a new surgical robot: it assumes the real bottleneck in feeding-tube placement was never operator skill but the absence of a screen. Whether ENvue Drive's prototype actually lowers the lung-misplacement rate, who pays for the disposables, and what regulatory path the robotic layer follows beyond the existing 510(k) are the questions that decide whether this is medicine or marketing.