A Catalan surgeon operates a Chinese man 8,264 km away with a remote-controlled robot - Elnacional.cat

Dr. Alberto Breda, head of Oncological Urology at the Puigvert Foundation, successfully operated on a man admitted to the Pla General Hospital in Beijing, China, on September 11, for a kidney tumor. What makes the story surprising is that Dr. Breda intervened on the patient from Bordeaux, in the south of France, 8,264 kilometers away. The operation, which consisted of removing the kidney - a nephrectomy -, could be done electronically thanks to …