In early September, a French group performed the first transatlantic operation. Surgeons in New York controlled a robot in Strasbourg, France, which removed a woman’s gall bladder. There were two surgeons near the patient standing by.
Robotic surgery is used in more than 100 hospitals around the world. The technology filters out a surgeon’s hand tremors, and it also can scale down the surgeon’s motions, enabling more precise procedures.
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