Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

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They use a reusable's would fly in the face of the da Vinci strategy, which is based on a variation of the razor blade sales model. Even though the robot itself is very expensive, there annuity income is tied to each instrument becoming inactivated after 10 uses. This has to do, IMO, with significant complexity built into the instruments themselves required for their use.

If the sports technology simplifies the amount of required complexity within the arms, reusable tips makes sense. Graspers, needle drivers, and similar instrumentation can be reusable; scissors, cautery devices and other sharp and/or insulated devices would be better as reposables