Hey Roll, and anyone else with a couple minutes to spare...
Take a good look at what Medtronic has done with Hugo!
Go to the Medtronic web site.
Click the search icon (magnifying glass looking icon)
Type "Hugo" and hit enter. You should get 6 links to content on their web site.
The first link is about Hurricane Hugo relief efforts.
The next 5 each direct to pages with some robotic surgery content. Go to each of them, and search for "Hugo" (use ctl-F to search the content of that page). None of the five other pages actually contain the word/name Hugo!
It appears that the entire Medtronic web site is devoid of the name of their highly-touted robot from last September's big reveal.
This leads me to believe that they have most likely moved on from the majority of "Hugo" as it briefly existed, and they are going back to square one for their "bigger" system. Maybe snake arms, deployed two per pod to cut their bedside footprint in half? Maybe two per incision to offer four arms and two viewing angles through jut two incisions? Maybe processing can be split between the pods and the surgeon console instead of an additional tower in the room?
Titan's tech would give them a number of options to create a vastly improved design, most of which is already prepped for quick integration and regulatory submission. But still not nearly as close to market as Enos!
Regardless of their future plans for their halo product, their total abandonment of Hugo (as it once) was is rather telling, and makes Titan's future look extremely promising!
IMO, of course... but some others may agree!
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MDT's Loan and The Development Agreement.....
were all in the first quarter and I have not seen it anywhere in MDT's filings.Should these items appear on August 25,2020 there they would be fair game for the first time an analyst could ask about them.I do not believe anyone has inquired publically to MDT about TMDI's relationship to them nor have I seen a single article about HUGO. The conference was a dog and pony show without Q&A to MDT so MDT said what has been PR'd by TMDI.
Also,I never saw in MDT's investor pages anywhere where MDT itself filed a PR about the loan and Agreement.It struck me odd to not disclose that publically to a MDT shareholder besides newswires repeating it.
IF anyone feels like digging over the weekend in MDT filings let us know what you find.
This could be addressed during first quarter CC after MDT reports on Aug,25. BUT a call in will have to ask about it imo.We will have to wait and see too if any "clues" appear in the filing.There is always clues-more detail in a company's filing.
Thanks Roll
