Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[Bristol19]

Basically for all the hype in the awards article, this is just another MIS robot that "deploys" in the same way as SPORT. You would think they were speaking about an implant that does surgery. Hardly a 'virtual' incision. Probably written by an undergrad business intern. From the photo, each wristed joint has its own actuator (motor). I do see that as these actuators get smaller and smaller, and are under intelligent software control driven by a surgeon console, these platforms will offer an alternative (and more robotically traditional) method as compared to snake arm articulation. That is why I have said there are two main camps here in terms of technologies to make a surgical robot. Titan has gone the one path; other companies are probably going the other. Both have merits, disadvantages, and will improve over time. But, Titan's is a little bit more exotic at the moment. Will big companies who might be considering MA take that chance?