
13/07/2025
A Surgeon in Rome Just Operated on a Patient in Beijing.
Let that sink in. Over 8,000 km apart, connected by 5G and fibre-optic lines, a Chinese surgeon remotely performed a full robotic prostate surgery — live from a medical conference in Rome, while the patient lay in an operating theatre in Beijing.
It’s the first transcontinental telesurgery in history.
Latency? Just 135 milliseconds.
Outcome? A complete success.
This isn’t science fiction. It’s the future of medicine happening right now. Imagine what this could mean for people in remote areas, war zones or underserved regions.