Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[Bristol19]

Very good article; thanks!

So, is Titan progressive enough to be working with groups that are developing a miniature suturing device that can be mounted on, or utilize either or both of the snake arms in Sport? Since the arms do appear to allow great freedom of motion, and appositional ability, that would be a great advanyage os Sport over straight-stick mechanisms.

Sport suturing can be done in a "more naturally manual" way (as shown in their video), but still appears "clumsy" to me given the manual dexterity of a surgeon.

Can the suturing motions of the snake arms be remembered/repeated automatically with a button press after the needle is passed?

They should call me for ideas.

I will predict that surgeon-trainability will become the greatest hurdle for Sport, in any form it first appears. If the arms are capable of great dexterity, but the human controlling them has large hurdles to overcome to use them well, that will be a problem.
I'd love to see a video showing the hand interface.
ANY potential for haptic feedback, either realistic, or just "shaker-stick" hopefully is being seriously looked into.