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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001610717-24-000412
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	4
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20240801
FILED AS OF DATE:		20240805
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20240805

REPORTING-OWNER:	

	OWNER DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Johnson Amal M
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001388397
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		4
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	000-30713
		FILM NUMBER:		241174028

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		C/O MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
		STREET 2:		350 OAKMEAD PARKWAY, SUITE 100
		CITY:			SUNNYVALE
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			94085

ISSUER:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			INTUITIVE SURGICAL INC
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001035267
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	ORTHOPEDIC, PROSTHETIC & SURGICAL APPLIANCES & SUPPLIES [3842]
		ORGANIZATION NAME:           	08 Industrial Applications and Services
		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">The transaction took place in accordance with a Trading Plan that complies with SEC Rule 10b5-1 and expires on May 2, 2025.</footnote>
        <footnote id="F2">100% of the shares subject to the option shall vest on the earlier of the one year anniversary of the date of grant or the next Annual Meeting of Stockholders, subject to the Reporting Person's continued service as a director to the issuer.</footnote>
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    <ownerSignature>
        <signatureName>By: Donna Spinola For: Johnson, Amal M.</signatureName>
        <signatureDate>2024-08-05</signatureDate>
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    <div style="text-align: center; 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; font-size: 12pt;">Know all by these present that the undersigned hereby authorizes Donna Spinola, Stephanie Lim-Ignacio, Thanh Nhan Phan, and Cory Balliet
      of Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (the &#8220;<font style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Company</font>&#8221;) and Mark Roeder and John Williams of Latham &amp; Watkins LLP, and each of them
      individually, to (i) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned&#8217;s capacity as an officer or director of the Company, Forms 3, 4, and 5, and Notices of Proposed Sale of Securities Pursuant to Rule 144 (&#8220;<font style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Form 144</font>&#8221;), in accordance with the requirements of Rule 144 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the &#8220;<font style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Securities Act</font>&#8221;), and other forms as may be required, and any amendments thereto, and cause such forms to be filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
      Commission (the &#8220;<font style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">SEC</font>&#8221;) pursuant to Section&#160;16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the &#8220;<font style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Exchange Act</font>&#8221;) and Rule 144 under the Securities Act, relating to the undersigned&#8217;s ownership of and transactions in securities of
      the Company and (ii) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned in the undersigned&#8217;s name, and submit to the SEC a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate to obtain and/or regenerate codes and
      passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act, Rule 144 of the Securities Act or any rule or regulation of the SEC. 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 attorneys-in-fact, or such attorneys-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 Exchange Act or Rule 144 under the Securities Act.</div>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 72pt; 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 and
      Form 144 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>
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    <div style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 72pt; margin-bottom: 24pt; font-size: 12pt;">IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this day of July 25,
      2024.</div>
    <div style="margin-left: 216pt; font-size: 12pt;"><u>/s/ Amal M Johnson</u></div>
    <div style="text-indent: 216pt; font-size: 12pt;">Signature</div>
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    <div style="text-indent: 216pt; font-size: 12pt;"><u>Amal M Johnson</u></div>
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