The future of surgery The advent of 5G networks is expanding possibilities for treatments using surgical robots. With the capacity to instantly transmit ultrahigh-resolution medical images of ...
In January this year, cameras were on hand to film the jaw-dropping sight of the world's first 5G remote surgery on a lab animal. Two months later, it was a human's turn , when a doctor in the ...
But a doctor in Italy just completed a procedure that could inspire the next wave of futuristic medicine: telesurgery. In the first public demonstration of remote surgery over a 5G network, an expert ...
5G holds promise Beyond Mentor Hospital, 5G is already used to perform remote surgery, and some experts speculate it will fuel a rise in robotic surgery. The authors of a 2023 peer-reviewed paper ...
A hospital could tailor a 5G network to have ultra-high reliability and ultra-low latency, ushering in an era of remote surgery. Telecommunications companies and innovators have imagined all sorts ...