---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-063296"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RBOT"
cik: "0001812173"
company_name: "Vicarious Surgical Inc."
filed_at: "2025-07-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T06:57:08.013935+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Vicarious Surgical's NYSE compliance plan accepted; auditor changed to Cherry Bekaert

## Summary
- NYSE accepted compliance plan to regain $50M min market cap within 18 months; RBOT now trades with '.BC' indicator.
- Dismissed Deloitte & Touche as independent auditor; no disagreements but material weaknesses in internal controls existed.
- Appointed Cherry Bekaert as new auditor for fiscal year 2025, effective July 7, 2025.
- Listing continues on NYSE during cure period; quarterly compliance reviews by NYSE.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-063296
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RBOT
- cik: 0001812173
- company_name: Vicarious Surgical Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-07-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.01, 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1812173/000121390025063296/0001213900-25-063296-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1812173/000121390025063296/ea0248587-8k_vicarious.htm

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## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  Vicarious Surgical Inc. dismissed Deloitte & Touche LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: Deloitte & Touche LLP
  - Successor: Cherry Bekaert LLP
  source text: On July 7, 2025, the Company dismissed Deloitte & Touche LLP ("Deloitte") as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1812173/000121390025063296/0001213900-25-063296-index.htm
- Auditor Changes
  Vicarious Surgical Inc. engaged Cherry Bekaert LLP as its auditor.
  - Action: engagement
  - Auditor: Cherry Bekaert LLP
  source text: On July 7, 2025, in connection with the Company’s dismissal of Deloitte, the Audit Committee approved the engagement of Cherry Bekaert as its new independent registered public accounting firm
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1812173/000121390025063296/0001213900-25-063296-index.htm
- Listing & Compliance Notices
  Vicarious Surgical Inc. received a nyse noncompliance notice notice regarding market value (rules 802.01B).
  - Exchange: nyse
  - Notice: noncompliance notice
  - Deficiency: market value
  - Rules: 802.01B
  source text: April 10, 2025, Vicarious Surgical Inc. (the “Company”) received a written notice (the “Notice”) from the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) indicating the Company was no longer in compliance with the NYSE’s continued listing standards set forth in Section 802.01B of the NYSE’s Listed Company Manual (the “Minimum Market Capitalization Standard”) due to the fact that the Company’s average global market capitalization over a consecutive 30 trading-day period was less than $50 million and, at the same time, its stockholders’ equity was less than $50 million. In accordance with applicable NYSE p
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1812173/000121390025063296/0001213900-25-063296-index.htm

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