Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[Bristol19]

In my opinion, the acquiring company (if it is JnJ/Google) would have not made their press releases:

"Johnson & Johnson today announced that Ethicon, a medical device company in the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, has executed a definitive agreement to enter into a strategic collaboration with Google, Inc., working with the Life Sciences team on advancing surgical robotics to benefit surgeons, patients and health care systems.
The companies will bring together capabilities, intellectual property and expertise to create an innovative robotic-assisted surgical platform capable of integrating advanced technologies with the goal of improving health care delivery in the operating room. The collaboration was facilitated by Johnson & Johnson Innovation in California."

without a clear cut plan of what platform they were to involve themselves with.

A re-read of this is making me think that who they are speaking about is likely the Raven II (http://rll.berkeley.edu/raven/) open-source system, which is a HEAVILY software-oriented, pro-autonomous action system. For example, software is being developed by Raven collaborators to venture into such "futuristic" capibilities as computer-controlled debridement. That would be right up Google's alley, not Titan's SPORT.
Titan is a manual direct-drive surgical "robot", maybe close to production, but not pushing into uncharted territory like Raven II anytime in the near future.
Also, the early buzz on this board was that Ethicon was not the likely effector maker that Titan partnered with.
My bet now is that JnJ/Google is not dealing with Titan.

As to whether "negativity" on this board is a discouragement to potential Titan investors, are you kidding me? Titan has a website that should be it's promotional tool for investors. Obviously, they could care less about that promotion. We shouldn't be jonesing for board members to be writing articles promoting Titan. If they had a spokesman who was the face of the company, and periodic info releases, that would be a bit better.