Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[Bristol19]

Very interesting, and a true robot, meaning that it can work autonomously and learn. SPORT is not; neither is daVinci.
Meant almost exclusively for tele-surgery.
Academic project and open source.

I wish them well; that is good work they are doing. That is the future for robotic surgery, even if Raven is not the platform. Possible commercialization? Not for a decade. Can you imagine FDA hurdles to allow autonomous surgery, even if it is directed by a surgeon. FDA will need to form a whole new section just for autonomous robotics.

There are a number of academic projects like this all over the world, many in Europe, and sometimes partly financed by the state.

Titan would do well to study features of them. For example, Raven obviously is being designed to do automated suturing.