Nice article, in contrast (in a marketing way) to the Columbia scientific review that raises big questions about how fast robotic surgery will be adopted, and develop, if the metrics are not overwhelmingly positive.
Unfortunately, as a scientist and engineer, I have to take the Columbia article a bit more seriously than a press release geared to market a health care system. Note that they say their nwe robotics "may" improve patient care.
As we all know, robotics is here to stay, and will only get better, but conventional manual surgery will be here for a long, long, long time. Simply put, it is an adequate skill that can benefit by small, enhancing technologies, for example staplers and biocompatible implantables like mesh, valves, joints, and the like. SPORT, and DaVinci, do not now address areas like plastic surgery, scoliosis surgery, limb reconstruction, or other surface or large field prodedures. The SPORT mechanism may eventually win out with being able to move into these types of surgery, when and where it makes sense. But other technologies that mimic the overall dexterity of the human hand will also be powerful, especially when haptics can come into play.
I hope, as I've been saying all along, that Titan is being proactive behind the scene (since we never hear anything) and actively developing procedures with the same agressiveness as ISRG.
It really bugs me that the company is so quiet.
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