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Doctors have successfully operated on a pig – from 5,780 miles away | Using a video game controller, surgeons in Switzerland successfully performed an endoscopy on a pig in Hong Kong, paving the way for remote procedures in humans in areas where local expertise isn’t available.
Doctors have successfully operated on a pig – from 9,300 km (5,780 miles) away. Using a video game controller, surgeons in Switzerland successfully performed an endoscopy on a pig in Hong Kong, paving the way for remote procedures in humans in areas where local expertise isn’t available.
Using a video game controller, surgeons in Switzerland successfully performed an endoscopy on a pig in Hong Kong, paving the way for remote procedures in humans in areas where local expertise isn’t available. A robotic system and a magnetic endoscope was used at the Hong Kong end, connected through a direct WebSocket protocol for real-time data transfer to a control console in Zurich. This test was conducted in a sedated live pig, with the scientist able to bend the endoscope into a full U-turn and even take a useable biopsy of the animal’s stomach wall tissue.
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