In an era of unequal distribution of medical resources globally, what can telemedicine offer us?
In an unprecedented achievement, Professor Zhang Xu led a groundbreaking remote surgery from Rome to Beijing.
Over a distance of 8,000 kilometers, he performed the live surgery at a conference in Italy, guiding robotic arms remotely via a surgical console to complete the delicate work of removing a lesion from the patient’s prostate.
The procedure demonstrated remarkable precision with a latency of just 135 milliseconds—well below the 200-millisecond standard for telesurgery.
“During today’s surgery, there was almost no delay, and it was almost the same as an on-site surgery,” Zhang added.
