Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[Bristol19]

My impression was that it can simultaneously reposition or adjust the patient as the daVinci arms all get readjusted. Not sure if the bed controls DaVinci or vice-versa, or both.

For example, the patient could be tilted for some specific procedure or hemodynamic issue, intraoperatively, and the bed or DaVinci just moves along perfectly. No danger to the patient by moving them first, or the robot first, or trying to coordinate the two. There must be limits of travel too, that are designed in. SPORT may not have those limits of travel in the first place.

I think it is ultimately a VERY IMPORTANT FEATURE that daVinci users will find useful in select situations. If ISRG had been a bit more visionary this may have been part of the daVinci design from the beginning.

SPORT would need to be designed specifically to work with this bed, and vice-versa. The fact that SPORT is mobile and doesn't have a fixed reference to the bed and floor means that some other way of registering the SPORT position and the bed position would need to be developed. Then they would need to talk to one another; then SPORT would need to be able to actuate itself to move appropriately. Don't think anything like that is around the corner at this time for SPORT. Titan should make it a point to understand this technology completely as it could be related to their designs in the future.