https://en.people.cn/n3/2025/0828/c90000-20358883.html

During the Society of Robotic Surgery 2025 Annual Meeting in Strasbourg, France, Professor Liang Xiao of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital affiliated with Zhejiang University School of Medicine, who was attending this conference, carried out surgery on an 80-year-old patient more than 10,000 kilometers away in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, performing a delicate liver resection with exceptional accuracy.

The patient, surnamed Wu, had been hospitalized for a scheduled procedure. However, his conditions deteriorated when Professor Liang was joining the academic conference abroad, immediate surgery became necessary. To ensure timely treatment and with full trust in his attending physician, the patient agreed to undergo the operation using the hospital’s most advanced cross-border remote robotic surgery technology. Supported by the Chinese domestically developed surgical robot, the entire procedure was completed in just 50 minutes. Professor Liang successfully performed a robot-assisted remote left hepatic lobectomy for liver cancer. The patient is currently in stable condition and recovering well.

Throughout the surgery, the robot operated steadily, with clear real-time image transmission and uninterrupted voice interaction. Through seamless collaboration between Chinese and French experts, all surgical objectives were successfully accomplished.

Professor Liang’s team previously achieved a milestone in 2023, performing China’s first 5,000-km remote cholecystectomy using domestic robotics on a patient in Aral. Just days before his departure to France, he conducted another pioneering remote liver cancer surgery for a patient in the mountainous region of Jiangshan.