Japanese university, surgeons' society perform remote robotic surgery

A Japanese university and the Japan Surgical Society said Wednesday that they have performed surgeries on five patients with bowel cancer using remote-controlled robots since August, aiming to address a shortage and geographic maldistribution of doctors.The surgeries were successfully performed by doctors of Hirosaki University Hospital and Tsugaru General Hospital, both in the northeastern prefecture of Aomori.In each surgery, a doctor operating a surgical robot called "hinotori", developed by a Japanese company Medicaroid Corp., was assisted by another doctor remotely controlling the same…READ FULL ARTICLE