Replies to post #21967 on Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[longtermgems]

What do you mean they are programmable and not controlled directly? The surgeon is in direct control of the manipulation of the da Vinci system. I think you are under the impression that the da Vinci robot does all of the work and surgeon sits backs and watches it happen, as are many people not familiar with the surgical robotic market. Can you please elaborate? The surgeon, at all times, directly controls and manipulate the robot, both SurgiBot and Da Vinci. In fact; when the surgeon takes their hands off of the davinci or surgibot, it automatically locks into place. Please elaborate dak, I am seriously astonished by your thought that the robot is in direct control and does all of the work

[Bristol19]

True that programming negotiates action between the manual interface and the effectors in SPORT and DaVinci. Surgibot is all manual as far as I know.

Nothing autonomous in any of them, however. It's a fine line with the definition these days. The high schools called their robotics clubs "robotics", but all they were doing was remote control, like any RC airplane or car model. Hopefully, it's true robotics now, like a car that controls itself. For me, robotics starts when program logic make decisions and control commands apart from human inputs. Automated dissection or suturing would be an example. We're not there yet.