Robotic surgery performed remotely

Three top surgical teams from China and the United Kingdom came together to conduct a remote robotic surgery spanning across continents on Thursday, with the medical teams saying it was like they were in the same operating theater.

Led by Shanghai Renji Hospital, in collaboration with the Chinese University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Medicine and London's Royal Marsden Hospital, the multisite coordinated surgery took place simultaneously in Shanghai, Hong Kong and London.

The experimental operation was performed on a pig in Hong Kong, and the doctors performed a relay laparoscopic robotic gastrectomy on it, using a domestically made remote platform of surgical robots.