Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[Bristol19]

Good analysis. I'll add that I agree the Titan IP appears to really have a lot of the snake arm effector ideas tied up nicely. I don't know who that think tank is that is always named on the patents, but they obviously are pretty obsessed with the mechanism. Which leads me to remind everyone, patents can portray devices that have never been tested, let alone built. Conceptually they appear to work, but practically is another issue. There is no way to really understand mechanism performance until it is built. You can create a library of patents for a device that is never accepted as a viable technology.
I doubt that the team dreaming up this stuff is actually fabricating and testing. So, as you say, a lot, lot of money is going to be required to keep the developmental ball rolling past the first generation of SPORT arms. It remains to be seen whether the technology will be adopted in favor of other more conventional robotic mechanisms. The sooner Titan gets its foot in the door with this "radical" new technology the better. That is why I think that any MA company will want to have a good handle on the SPORT mechanism performance before they bet the bank on it and support it ahead of more "conventional" approaches.