Number of the day - 350 km telesurgery in Poland
Polish doctors perform Europe’s first remote heart surgery using the Edge robot "A team of Polish medics has performed the first remote robotic surgeries between two hospitals in Europe, using a next-generation surgical platform to operate across a distance of over 350 kilometres. On Friday, 1 August 2025, cardiac surgeon Prof Piotr Suwalski, director of the State Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration (PIM MSWiA) in Warsaw, conducted a coronary bypass procedure on a patient located in Warsaw while physically operating the robotic console from a hospital in Gdańsk, northern Poland. The procedure was performed using the EDGE MP1000, a surgical robot developed in China, valued at approximately 6–7 million PLN (€1.64 million). The operation was the first cardiac surgery of its kind in Europe and marked the global debut of this new robotic platform in clinical use." Short video coverage here. Source: Polskie Radio
