BK, I'm mostly with you on this... I don't call BS on Verb's vision, but I am a bit leery about its potential with Titan. For Titan to try to launch with a new OS, we toss a lot of existing development work without any guarantees on stability of the code. Maybe Verb would love to see Titan run their OS to work the bugs out, giving Titan a bad reputation and letting Verb release their own robotic system with the bugs already worked out. In some ways, an OS is an OS... Nobody wants the challenge of validating a Windows-based software package for this type of application. You can strip down Linux, maybe a Ubuntu-based system to run Java and have a fairly easy go of it, as long as your user interface is reasonable. Android is making inroads in medical devices as well... hopefully more stable versions than my cell phone!
The surgeons will be interested in the User Interface more than anything else, then the stability of the OS. I don't think Verb plans to offer a standardized UI. But if Titan comes up with a superior UI design, maybe they could license it back to Verb and Verb can offer subsequent competitors a full package, and Titan gets royalties from the competition! Just need feedback from the surgeon's to be REALLY REALLY good!
Yeah, still dreaming, I know.
Happy Thanksgiving to all! And to our Canadian and Canadien brethren (depending on Province), I'll pop on my Bob and Doug album this weekend and play Beer Hunter!
