Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[Bristol19]

Nice video about the Carnegie Mellon snake technology. It confirms what I said about the difference between what procedures Medrobotics and SPORT will target. SPORT will be useful where large surgical fields are required, which is by far the more common case. Even in the video, you have to ask yoursef, how many things can be performed by threading in a snake with only working tools at the face of it. You aren't going to be able to do CABG or replace a valve (I realize that catheter guided valve replacement is possible in some circumstances). The working field for most surgery, especially the classic open-incision types like chole, will still require a stand-off, large field approach.

A lot of times a surgeon also wants to look around in the general vicinity too, like if doing a dissection for lymph nodes.

I think Medrobotics will have its own niche, like in many ENT procedures. I said months ago on this board that the power of SPORT will depend on Titan developing the applications and specialized tool options for where it can be used. ISRG daVinci pushes those boundaries for itself, even where it is a bit of a stretch. But I give them credit for trying and advancing the technology. Titan better be doing the same, and I'd like to get a little hint about it from time to time, but they are too quiet.

For those posters who say one form factor is "superior" to another that is based on ignorance of the intended and potential applications. I'm an engineer and have done animal surgery and work with surgeons.