TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Titan Medical Inc. (“Titan” or the “Company”) (TSX: TMD) (Nasdaq: TMDI), a medical device company focused on the design and development of single-port robotic surgical technologies, announces that it has completed design enhancements to instruments compatible for use with its single-port robotic surgical system. As previously disclosed, the Company resumed development of instruments for its single-port robotic surgical system in June 2020 following the completion of a financing for gross proceeds of US$18 million.
Mr. McNally, said, “We are pleased to report that based on our recent financing, we have already completed design improvements to the multi-articulating instruments and end effectors of our single-port robotic surgical system. The clinically inspired requirements for improvements resulted from data gathered during case observations and valuable surgeon feedback received during our previously announced successful preclinical studies. These design improvements are expected to enhance instrument strength and agility, efficiency of actuation, and durability for reprocessing, while reducing manufacturing costs.”
Concluding, Mr. McNally said, “We are grateful for the significant contributions of the expert team of engineers from Cambridge Design Partnership Ltd. (CDP), who continue to meet our expectations for excellence in product development, as anticipated when we announced our expanded engagement on January 6, 2020. Once financing was secured in June, CDP responded immediately to our request to expand their role. In the coming weeks, we look forward to laboratory testing prototypes of the improved instrument designs.”
About Titan Medical Inc.
Titan Medical Inc. is focused on robotic-assisted technologies for application in minimally invasive surgery (“MIS”). Titan is developing a single-port robotic surgical system comprised of a surgeon-controlled patient cart that includes a dual-view camera system with 3D and 2D high-definition vision systems and multi-articulating instruments for performing MIS procedures, and a surgeon workstation that provides an ergonomic interface to the patient cart and a 3D high-definition endoscopic view of the MIS procedure. Titan intends to initially pursue gynecologic surgical indications for use of its single-port robotic surgical system.
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