Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[Bristol19]

My guess here, based on the stated applications of trans-oral surgery "down to the voice box", is that the system is "micro surgical", ie. very small instruments at the business end. You still need room in (or around) the snake to ventilate the airway (unless a tracheostomy is done), and for 3D vision, which requires some physical standoff from the working field, and I think stereoscopic separation. Look at the SPORT camera, for example.

Sounds like this was developed to extend and make oral access procedures easier. Of course, it also opens up the possibility of trans-rectal, trans-vaginal, trans-gastric, approaches to sites I would guess primarily for tumor removal. As such, it may not be all that useful for the larger field, single incision laproscopic procedures like chole, where they essentially blow up the surgical field with gas.
Anyway, I'm willing to bet the Medrobotics form/function has a big place in surgery. It may be a long time, like is true for daVinci and prostatectomy, to show effacacy over traditional methods. Titan will face the same hurdles.
I am worried about the posssibility of patent issues between the "snake" companies.
All in all, this Medrobotics system has taken a bit of wind out of my sails for SPORT. I've got 13k shares in, but I have got to hear some good news before I will buy more. They don't have to be so GD quiet.