Amid the robotics boom, investors of the U.S. surgical robot company Vicarious Surgical voted to cease the company's operations and initiate bankruptcy liquidation proceedings. Vicarious was once seen as a challenger to the da Vinci surgical system, with prominent figures including Bill Gates and Jerry Yang holding stakes in the firm. It successfully listed on the U.S. stock market in 2021, but repeated delays in R&D and deployment turned its PPT-promised products into nothing more than stories, and even total financing exceeding 2 billion RMB failed to keep it afloat. Founded in 2014 by two Massachusetts Institute of Technology students, Adam Sachs and Sammy Khalifa, along with surgeon Barry Greene, Vicarious drew inspiration from the 1966 film *Fantastic Voyage*. The team designed a robotic arm with 9 degrees of freedom and integrated VR technology, envisioning a tiny robot inserted into a patient's abdominal cavity through an incision less than 1.5 centimeters long.