Indian-listed SS Innovations (Nasdaq: SSII) unveiled Vimana Aero on April 23 at SMRSC 2026 in New Delhi — 1,600 surgeons in the room, 1,800 more dialing in from 19 countries. Nobody has built this exact thing before.
Hardware that flies and operates
A heavy autonomous drone carrying two 7-DOF mini arms with 5mm surgical instruments. It flies to a wounded soldier, lands, and a surgeon at an SSi Mantra command center takes over via 5G. Pitched use cases: hemorrhage control, chest decompression, shrapnel extraction, field suturing — the stabilization work before evac. Same launch also brought Avtara (a humanoid surgical platform), Operion mobile OR, and a single-arm endoscopic cart. Vimana is the headline because nobody has fused drone plus dexterous manipulation plus 5G teleop into one trauma SKU.
How an AI agent plugs in
Control rides SSi Mantra’s surgeon console — the same teleop stack SSI already ships for its commercial laparoscopic robot. Public Vimana API isn’t out yet, but the comms layer is 5G/satellite into Mantra, where SDK access already exists. Intended loop: agent flies the drone to GPS, lands, hands off cutting to a remote surgeon, then flies the patient onward. Indian defense outlets picked it up within 24 hours as Project Vimana.
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