Doctors from the US and UK have performed the world’s first-ever remote-controlled surgery — in what has been hailed as a medical “game changer.” Surgeons at a hospital in Dundee, Scotland, used a robot to remove a blood clot in a human cadaver, which was located at a university facility across the city. Hours later — and over 4,000 miles away in Jacksonville, Florida — Dr Ricardo Hanel then used the groundbreaking technology to operate on the same body.
