July 2026.

Field Notes

Industry roundups

Aug 31, 2026 Oura Says It Isn't a Medical Device. The Ad Compared It to a Sleep Lab. Aug 30, 2026 The FDA Wants to Know How You'd Test a Device That Answers Differently Every Time Aug 29, 2026 Medtronic Pulled These Capsules Twice for the Same Failure. Only the Cause Changed. Aug 28, 2026 Bedrock’s Excavators Dig With Nobody in the Cab. Bedrock Doesn’t Build Excavators. Aug 27, 2026 Uber's Software Decided Who Kept Earning. The Missing Human Cost 825 Million Euros. Aug 26, 2026 Boston Scientific's Plants Went Quiet. Its Filing Names Shipping, Not Devices. Aug 25, 2026 XPeng Raised $900 Million for a Humanoid. Its First Customer Is XPeng. Aug 24, 2026 Every COVID-19 Test EUA Ends December 26. Authorized Was Never the Same as Cleared. Aug 23, 2026 The FDA's TEMPO Pilot Isn't Reviewing These Devices. The Companies Wrote Their Own Limits. Aug 22, 2026 ARPA-H Bet $175 Million on Autonomous Stroke Robots. The Hard Part Is the Room They Land In. Aug 21, 2026 The FDA Authorized a Blood Draw Robot. The Ratio in the Label Is the Product. Aug 20, 2026 GM Walked Away From This Battery Plant Twenty Months Before It Opened Aug 19, 2026 The Navy Wants Sixteen Times the Tomahawks. The Seven Years Is What Buys Them. Aug 18, 2026 J&J Cleared AI on Its Lung Robot. The Fourth Update in Eighteen Months Matters More. Aug 17, 2026 Abbott Makes the Glucose Number. Google Charges for What to Do About It. Aug 16, 2026 H.B. Fuller Already Made Surgical Glue. It's Paying £715 Million for the Evidence. Aug 15, 2026 The Medicare Coverage Decision Now Happens Before Your Pivotal Trial Aug 14, 2026 Cook Medical's Breach Never Touched the Device. It Went Through a Person. Aug 13, 2026 Joby Is Paying $500 Million to Move Its Defense Work Out of the Building Aug 12, 2026 Hadrian Raised $1.37 Billion for Factories. The Drawings Are Still Your Problem. Aug 11, 2026 iRhythm Paid $287.5 Million to Stop Waiting on Its Own FDA Clearance Aug 10, 2026 Caristo Built a Heart Test for the Patients Who Get Sent Home. The Billing Codes Came First. Aug 9, 2026 HII Put $900 Million on the Table for Shipyard Robots. The Qualification Comes First. Aug 8, 2026 An FDA Advisory Panel Reads Your File Cold. Grail Finds Out September 23. Aug 8, 2026 An FDA Advisory Panel Reads Your File Cold. Grail Finds Out September 23. Aug 7, 2026 Solventum Is Separating $1.4 Billion of Software. It Ran on a Different Clock. Aug 6, 2026 BD's Needle Was Out of Tolerance for Twenty Months. Part of the Fix Is a Label. Aug 5, 2026 The Pentagon Wants Four Times the THAADs. The Shopping List Says Muzzle Covers. Aug 4, 2026 Reimagine Wants Your Line Worker to Teach the Robot. Walden Wants to Do It for You. Aug 3, 2026 Walter Reed Cleared the Implant. Now the Hospital Is the Manufacturer. Aug 2, 2026 MMI Didn't Build a Robot for Alzheimer's. Two Surgeons Decided It Was One Anyway Aug 1, 2026 Peak Energy Picked the Weaker Chemistry. Then It Deleted the Cooling System.