Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[Bristol19]

True that programming negotiates action between the manual interface and the effectors in SPORT and DaVinci. Surgibot is all manual as far as I know.

Nothing autonomous in any of them, however. It's a fine line with the definition these days. The high schools called their robotics clubs "robotics", but all they were doing was remote control, like any RC airplane or car model. Hopefully, it's true robotics now, like a car that controls itself. For me, robotics starts when program logic make decisions and control commands apart from human inputs. Automated dissection or suturing would be an example. We're not there yet.