Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[Bristol19]

Looks like a nice advertisement for daVinci.

From your experience, and knowledge/expectations of SPORT and potential effectors, could SPORT do this job?

It looks like they use daVinci arms to control each port.

If SPORT can reduce the two effector ports and camera port to a single port, good. But note a liver retractor, controled by a person will still be needed with SPORT. Also, we don't know if switching effectors in SPORT will require full withdrawl of the SPORT arm (both effectors).

Also, the closely opposed effectors of SPORT don't have the range of separation that two separate daVinci arms can have. Are there situations where SPORT effectors, since they are "bundled together coming from the same direction" are a limitation.

I'm not trying to argue anything against SPORT, but for this operation, SPORT would seem to come up short.
I'm happy that ISRG is pushing the surgical robotic indications envelope.