<SEC-DOCUMENT>0001567619-19-015467.txt : 20190730
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<ACCEPTANCE-DATETIME>20190730175359
ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001567619-19-015467
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	4/A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20190724
FILED AS OF DATE:		20190730
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20190730

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Andersen Reiter Kara
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001766950

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		4/A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-30713
		FILM NUMBER:		19986697

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1020 KIFER ROAD
		CITY:			SUNNYVALE
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94086

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			INTUITIVE SURGICAL INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001035267
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ORTHOPEDIC, PROSTHETIC & SURGICAL APPLIANCES & SUPPLIES [3842]
		IRS NUMBER:				770416458
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1020 KIFER ROAD
		CITY:			SUNNYVALE
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94086
		BUSINESS PHONE:		4085232100

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1020 KIFER ROAD
		CITY:			SUNNYVALE
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94086
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        <footnote id="F1">These shares were sold in accordance with a Trading Plan that complies with SEC Rule 10b5-1 and expires on March 16, 2020.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">Non-statutory stock option granted pursuant to the 2010 Employee Stock Option Plan. The option vests 1/8th six months after the date of grant and 1/48th monthly thereafter.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">The Reporting Person's Form 4 filed with the SEC on 07/24/2019 inadvertently omitted the Power of Attorney as an exhibit.  The transactions reported in this Form 4/A are being re-reported solely to allow the filing of this amendment to attach the Power of Attorney. Except as otherwise noted in this footnote, all other information disclosed in the Reporting Person's original Form 4 was accurately reported.</footnote>
    </footnotes>

    <remarks>Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney</remarks>

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        <signatureName>By: Lori Serrano For: Kara Andersen Reiter</signatureName>
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    <div style="text-align: center; line-height: 12pt; margin-bottom: 24pt; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">POWER OF ATTORNEY</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 72pt; line-height: 20.5pt; font-size: 12pt;">Know all by these present that the undersigned hereby authorizes (i) Lori Serrano, (ii) Donna Spinola,&#160; (iii) Brian
      King and (iv) Siang Chin of Intuitive Surgical, Inc.(the &#8220;<font style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Company</font>&#8221;) and (v) any attorney employed in the Menlo Park, CA office
      of Latham &amp; Watkins LLP and each of them individually to execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned&#8217;s capacity as an officer and/or director of the Company, Forms 3, 4 and 5, and other forms as may be required, any
      amendments thereto, and cause such form(s) to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the <font style="font-weight: bold;">&#8220;</font><font style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">SEC</font><font style="font-weight: bold;">&#8221;</font>) pursuant to Section&#160;16(a) of the Securities
      Act of 1934, relating to the undersigned&#8217;s beneficial ownership of securities in the Company. The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
      necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby
      ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact&#8217;s substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned
      acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned&#8217;s responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Securities
      Exchange Act of 1934.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 72pt; line-height: 20.5pt; font-size: 12pt;">This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no longer required to file
      Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the undersigned&#8217;s holdings of, and transactions in, securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.</div>
    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 72pt; line-height: 20.5pt; margin-bottom: 24pt; font-size: 12pt;">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of
      this 29<sup style="vertical-align: text-top; line-height: 1; font-size: smaller;">th</sup> day of July 2019.</div>
    <div style="margin-left: 216pt; line-height: 13.7pt;"><font style="font-size: 12pt;"><u>/s/&#160; Karen Andersen Reiter</u></font><font style="display: inline-block; text-indent: 0px; font-size: 1px; width: 252pt" id="TRGRRTFtoHTMLTab">&#160;</font></div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 216pt; line-height: 13.7pt; font-size: 12pt;"><u>Kara Andersen Reiter</u></div>
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