Sci-fi surgery as doctor in UK directs robot to remove a prostate in Gibraltar
Briton with cancer operated on by doctor located 1,500 miles away using four-armed robot fitted with 3D cameraThe patient was in Gibraltar. The surgeon was in London. The outcome was a remarkable triumph for remote robotic surgery that saved the life of a 62-year-old football fan with prostate...
<p>Briton with cancer operated on by doctor located 1,500 miles away using four-armed robot fitted with 3D camera</p><p>The patient was in Gibraltar. The surgeon was in London. The outcome was a remarkable triumph for remote robotic surgery that saved the life of a 62-year-old football fan with prostate cancer.</p><p>Inside the operating theatre at St Bernard’s, the only hospital in the British overseas territory, a hi-tech robot with four arms, and fitted with a 3D camera, removed the prostate of Briton Paul Buxton, who moved to Gibraltar 40 years ago.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/06/sci-fi-surgery-as-doctor-in-uk-directs-robot-to-remove-a-prostate-in-gibraltar">Continue reading...</a>
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