Replies to post #25448 on Titan Medical Inc (TMDIF)

[was CUIN2]

Go over to your board to talk about these two platforms. Combined they are not as good as one SPORT. ALF looks a lot like daVinci...good luck with the patent infringement lawsuits (I'm sure that's why you bought it so cheaply-me too product, except for the haptic's)

Good luck and I'm certain folks will rush to your message board to discuss, as they have been.

[Bristol19]

Sounds like whoever is behind the ALF-x was happy to take a shot and unload it. TRXC is like Cessna that just bought the rights to maintain, develop and sell the B-52 (with Italian manuals). I think, despite any merits it may have as a platform, it will be a dud. Do any of the surgeons here think that index finger controlled rotator knob makes sense? Looked odd to me. Besides that it kills Surgibot. They have no interchangeability for parts, upgrade path, anything.

ISRG will step up its marketing and HOPEFULLY, Titan will pick up the pace, realizing its splash potential to be an ISRG option just got turned into a spritz. Opens the door for other European innovators too.

This development is why I have preached so hard that Titan needed to seed the SPORT idea into the marketplace by now. They just allowed themselves to get pushed behind even the back burner in terms of early adoption of SPORT. Many hospitals will blow their money first now on ALF-x, only to regret it. SPORT will find a harder sell then, right off the bat.