Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[66Mustang]

It's okay and often necessary to make contact; I think the purpose of the patent is a method of detection when contact is made. Presumably the software can then lock the controllers from proceeding further in the direction of the contact, because the end effectors can't keep going. Maybe it will give the surgeon the option of locking one side or making one side dominant using foot pedals, so one can push the other but the motion will all be properly tracked and fed back into the controller positions. Just a guess... but they really do need to know where things are at all times.