on July 18, 2011 |
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Topics: Service Lines, Market Trends, Strategy, Surgery, Technology Assessment, Planning, Technology Assessment, Methodologies, Performance Improvement
Concept Design for the Amadeus surgical robot (Titan Medical Inc., Canada)
A new robot, the Amadeus system, may give Intuitive Surgical a run for its money in the near future. The Amadeus system, which is manufactured by Titan Medical Inc. (Toronto, Canada), would make an interesting addition to the robotics market, which has and continues to be dominated by Intuitive Surgical, the maker of the da Vinci robot. Titan Medical recently posted on its website the first batch of concept designs for the Amadeus (see pictures above). According to announcements made by the company at the end of Q1, initial testing of the robot's beta console were recently completed and its makers are happy with the testing's "encouraging results." The company also has disclosed that the Amadeus system will be using arms made by Kuka Robot Group, an international company based in Germany. Among the features of this lightweight arm (pictured below), which will weigh only 14 kg, is that it includes seven degrees of freedom (DOF). This is the same number of DOF as Intuitive's da Vinci.
Lightweight Robotic Arm (KUKA Robotic Group, Germany)
Despite all this progress, Titan Medical's Amadeus appears to be still several years away from complete development. Still, as far as competition for Intuitive's da Vinci is concerned, the Amadeus seems to be one of the more developed systems out there and may be the closest competitor da Vinci has for now.
