Surgical Simulation Market

The surgical simulation market is projected to reach USD 349.4 million by 2030 from USD 176.0 million in 2025, at a CAGR of 14.7% from 2025 to 2030. Surgical simulation is defined as the process in which physical simulators, virtual reality, augmented/mixed reality, haptic devices, and computer-based platforms are integrated, allowing the rehearsal, training, validation, and assessment of skills using a variety of training tools, including skills required for surgical procedures, in such a way that surgeons, residents, students, and healthcare organizations benefit from the training, experimentation, and validation opportunities offered in a risk-free zone. The surgical simulation industry is spearheaded by the increasing complexity and volume of procedures, especially when it comes to minimally invasive and robotically assisted surgical procedures. Currently, more than 20 million patients worldwide have been helped by the da Vinci robotic-assisted surgical system . Illustrating the proliferation in the adoption of advanced surgical technology that mandates surgical training that is technology-intensive. As surgery becomes even more digitized, image-assisted, and device-dependent, traditional on-the-job training in surgery is no longer considered effective. According to a review article published by the BMJ Quality & Safety, the “see one, do one, teach one” approach is clearly inadequate when residents operate on real patients while feeling quite unprepared to independently perform procedures in a safe manner . Similarly, an analysis published by the Journal of Surgical Research found that many graduating surgeons are not ready to practice independently due to a lack of procedure exposure, restrictive duty hour limits, and a lack of a standardized framework for their surgical training program.

By these measures, surgical simulation is being positioned as a key factor in surgeon readiness to practice effectively and more safely.

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The surgical simulation market is moderately fragmented because the market comprises prominent medical simulation companies, as well as various other companies specializing in the manufacture of medical devices. Furthermore, there is an increasing number of companies focusing solely on immersive VR and software-based simulation solutions. In the surgical simulation market, vendors provide high-fidelity VR simulators, physical task trainers, patient simulators, robotic surgery simulators, and procedure-specific simulators, which creates a competitive landscape in both the physical simulation and software-based simulation markets. Moreover, the number of users in the surgical simulation market varies among academic medical institutions, hospitals, surgical institutes, and companies focused on the manufacture of medical devices. Although the prominent vendors in the surgical simulation market have a high level of outreach through their extensive distribution channels and have built a long history with consumers, a large number of companies are entering the market with VR-based simulation solutions. Overall, the level of competition for the vendors in the surgical simulation market is high due to the specialization in the field of practice, as well as the simulation solutions being focused on a high level of realism . Major players operating in the surgical simulation market include Surgical Science Sweden AB (Sweden), Laerdal Medical (Norway), Elevate Healthcare (US), Intuitive Surgical (US), Mentice AB (Sweden), VirtaMed AG (Switzerland), Gaumard Scientific (US), Simulab Corporation (US), Limbs & Things Ltd. (UK), Medtronic (Ireland), Osso VR (US), 3B Scientific (Germany), SIMULAIDS (US), TruCorp (UK), ImmersiveTouch, Inc. (US), Fundamental XR (UK), Kyoto Kagaku Co., Ltd. (Japan), SimX (Madison Industries) (US), Inovus Limited (UK), and Avkin (US).

In March 2024, Intuitive Surgical (US) received 510(k) clearance from the US FDA for the next-gen robotic surgery system, the da Vinci 5. At the time of commercialization, the company installed 362 da Vinci 5 systems in the US market. The company also marked a notable milestone in the same year as it saw more than 2,500 surgeons use the system to perform over 32,000 procedures across more than 40 clinical procedure types.

In March 2024, Surgical Science Sweden AB (Sweden) declared that its simulation software will be integrated into each da Vinci 5 robotic system, encouraged by FDA approval of this new robotic platform. This is an expansion into the robotic space where simulation is now a part of this system, opening up a wide array of training, skill development, and competency assessment aligned to current robotic surgery.

Surgical Science Sweden AB (Sweden)

Surgical Science Sweden AB specializes in developing simulators that offer comprehensive opportunities in terms of providing training opportunities in different forms of surgery, including laparoscopy, vascular surgery, and robotics. Such simulators help in facilitating extensive learning opportunities through comprehensive feedback and effective analysis. The company places a great emphasis on providing a comprehensive curriculum to educators, hospitals, and medical device suppliers. The company recently made a critical announcement that stated that its simulation software was about to be integrated into all da Vinci 5 robotic surgical systems, following FDA approval in March 2024, to help robotics surgeons further develop their working capabilities through simulation techniques .

Laerdal Medical (Norway)

Laerdal Medical is a notable industry leader globally, recognized as a premier development partner to the healthcare simulation industry, providing a full range of simulation solutions, such as high-fidelity patient simulators, task trainers, team training systems, as well as comprehensive simulation solutions for meeting the educational needs of the healthcare industry. In February 2025, Laerdal Medical announced the acquisition of SIMCharacters, a renowned and innovative developer of advanced neonatal simulators from Austria, thereby broadening its range of simulation solutions to serve the pediatric training market as well as the neonatology division of the training industry. By acquiring SIMCharacters’ realistic simulator solutions, such as Paul, Emily, and Emma, Laerdal Medical expands the neonatal simulation solutions of the training industry while strengthening its training footprint globally to meet the needs of the training industry amid a growing urge for realistic, high-emotion simulation solutions to be integrated within critical care training programs. Therefore, Laerdal Medical continues to further solidify its standing as a premier training development partner to the critical care simulation market through constant advancements toward realistic training solutions, such as the immersive, data-driven, and mission-critical.

Market Ranking

The surgical simulation market is moderately fragmented, with a small group of well-established companies that have broad, multi-specialty portfolios and high levels of integration in the ecosystem of surgery and medical devices. Some of the most prominent competitors, such as Surgical Science Sweden AB, Laerdal Medical, Mentice AB, VirtaMed AG, and Intuitive Surgical, have a substantial share in the overall market due to high-fidelity simulation that encompasses laparoscopic, robotic, and endovascular simulation. The presence of medical device companies, such as Intuitive Surgical and Medtronic, helps to further establish their position through integration in the process of selecting and training surgeons. However, along with these established players, virtual reality and software-based companies such as OssoVR, FundamentalXR, ImmersiveTouch, and SimX are also gaining acceptance for their scalable, immersive, and data analysis-based training options, which are conducive to remote learning and competency-based training. The surgical training module market is highly fragmented, with several companies specializing in different surgical procedures and using physical simulators, such as Limbs & Things, Simulab, Kyoto Kagaku, Inovus, Avkin, TruCorp, SIMULAIDS, and 3B Scientific, which meet relatively specific surgical training needs.

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