Robot tech for world's first remote brain op

SURGEONS have performed the world's first remote brain operations – one transatlantic – on stroke victims using cutting-edge robots.

- BY ELIZABETH HUNTER

SURGEONS have performed the world’s first remote brain operations – one transatlantic - on stroke victims using cutting-edge robots.

Professor Iris Grunwald, Director of the Image Guided Therapy Research Facility at the University of Dundee, performed the first ever remote thrombectomy on a human cadaver.