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Don't you think they will post the videos you saw?
Where is the Surgibot time line? I couldn't find it on the website. Can you post the link please?
Oh, ok
Xi? Do you mean SPORT?
I am.
A glimpse into the world of 3D printing for developing medical devices. I believe that Ximedica is using this technology to develop SPORT. It saves money and time.
http://blog.stratasys.com/2014/10/30/3d-printed-injection-molding-medical-devices/
What happened to William Wallace? Bring him back.
Discounted manufacturing costs?
Discounted manufacturing costs?
Very good guess!
Alibaba now worth more than Wal-Mart.
BABA will not be far behind. IMHO.
Yes I remember the first digital x-ray I saw. Unfortunately, I was a poor surgical resident with a wife, 2 babies, and one in the way . Not going to miss out this time.
Just curious. Which companies? Private or public?
I agree. Taking market share away from is best case scenario. Creating a new market is the primary objective and will happen. I think naysayers in academia will be interested in SPORT because it was developed by their own. Won't need the billboards which I despise with a passion.
I'll drive a golf cart. I don't golf.
Marked!
So he's lying and their was no high demand of the shares? A few weeks, a few months...what's the difference? The world is flat. Don't just go by what you think you know in terms of investor interest. Joseph Talirico now works for a French surgical robotic company that has a robot for neurosurgery. The founder of that company is an engineer who used to work for Computer in Motion. Their are many interconnections in this industry that non of us fully understand. We don't know what we don't know. IMHO.
Hence the comments on the webcast.
I hope so.
I think you can also swap 2 Sis for 1 Xi. (crazy right). That is what the surgeon from John Hopkins said that they were trying to do in the webcast I posted. However, they were still struggling with the increase in cost of doing robotic cases there.
That credit goes to IITF. He has posted all the institutional information.
I understand the frustration with the Amedeus debacle. That was before surgeons, who will be the market, where in control of the company. I believe it's a different company now. Just as surgery centers are run more efficiently when run by surgeons when compared to administrators...I believe that the roll out and execution of design, training and efficiency of SPORT will be satisfactory to all.
I guess you didn't Belize belizeme. He lays out a clear precise path to how a start up company would bring a new technology (surgical robot) to market. He has posted it twice. Also, the cost effectiveness of SPORT has been part of their strategy from day one. If I thought Dr. Fowler only wanted to develop SPORT, join Titan to the extent of selling it to a bigger company for THAT price so somebody else can "worry about it" I would have invested a lot less money. Again, these are not biotech people trying to make a quick buck. They are trying to change the "paradigm". That's why THEY are worrying about it and want to come out with a great AFFORDABLE surgical robot. This takes time. The Intuitive robots were designed with little thought to cost. That's a lot easier to do. IMHO.
But that was in 2013.
I couldn't have said it better.
I've not been a big fan of this preconceived J&J/Titan/Hargrove theory but I've been thinking and some things just don't add up.
Why did Fowler choose Titan to license his IREP? Why not Ethicon (J&J)or Covidien etc. Over the years he has trialled and help adopt so many of their newly developed devices for general surgery and had a working relationship with a lot of these companies already for sure. I'm sure he approached them or vice versa. He was publishing papers about IREP and it was featured in several articles. What did they say? No we're not interested? Or no....but their is this company in Canada and we gave this guy called Hargrove.
So was Hargrove working at Titan long before Craig Leon left? If not I think this is very plausible.
I would think that the buy one get one free trick would really hurt their margins. Wall Street wouldn't like that. But I wouldn't put it past them.
I will just never believe anything they tell me. I will continue to use the robot when it benefits my patients and because I enjoy robotic surgery. But it will get very old using the soon to be antiquated Si SS duct tape set up, especially when I know their is a much improved technology that's out there. Hopefully my selectivity of cases will keep our robotic cases low enough to minimize my intuitive reps bonus. Did I say that out loud?
I hate this company....That's interesting because an Intuitive Specialty Sales Manager told me that the Xi was meant for just high volume hospitals after I expressed my disappointment that my hospital had just purchased an Si 10 months before releasing the Xi that no one including him knew about....Until the Apple like release. (His words not mine). I thought that was BS and your comments confirm it. So smaller hospitals that purchased the Si right before the Xi came out are stuck with the old technology indefinitely...nice. I wonder why the Intuitive CEO said in the quarterly earnings conference that they would wait until 2016 to release the SP. Oh, did I mention...I really hate this company.
I find it very suspect that Intuitive has had a functional SP prototype since at least 2009. Yet now they're not releasing it until 2016. Any thoughts.
Did they just want to milk the hospitals with the S, Si and now Xi?
The TED talk was filmed in 2009
Go to 12:45 to see it. Good talk though.
http://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_mohr_surgery_s_past_present_and_robotic_future?language=en
Why do you think Intuitive is holding off bringing their SP to market to until 2016? Intuitives SP technology has been around since at least 2009.
The wrist is their thing. A very good advancement from straight stick. But snake arms are the next generation with potentially limitless flexibility. They will wish they had that IP. I don't think the manufacturing technology available enabled engineers to fathom such a thing back in the late 80's and 90's when Computer in motion followed buy the copy cat original Intuitive developed the first surgical robots.
With all your projected doom and gloom you should be glad you sold your GE stock. Why do you regret selling?
Ditto
You are welcome. Btw I hope everyone noticed that the Webcast was being hosted by yet another SAB member, Dr. Adrian Park. He hosts all the Surgical Innovations Webcasts out of the Cleveland Clinic.
Well, the way Intuitives clips work are that the clip applier effector has to be removed and each clip individually loaded on the effector which is than placed back on the robot arm and into the abdomen. They are very secure plastic interlocking clips but a bit tedious and can easily fall off the effector before it's deployed if the surgeon not carful...you than have to start the whole process over again.....painful. I've always thought that this is an area that could use improvement. SPORT will likely have something similar, hopefully better.
Clips would make sense. Probably smaller ones for the lap chole. Thanks. Can't wait to the video.
I BELIZE YOU! That makes total sense. Please everyone, we should listen to those who know the most in a particular field on this board. Let's take advantage of the diversity of the knowledge base on this board.