Operating from Shanghai, China, more than 6,800 kilometers away, an Armenian surgeon has performed remote surgery on 2 patients in Yerevan, Armenia, marking the country's first intercontinental telesurgery, according to Armenpress. Dr. Levon Grigoryan, head of robotic surgery and endoscopy at SlavMed Medical Center, controlled a surgical robot in Yerevan from the other side of the world to repair abdominal wall hernias in both patients. Grigoryan performed the operations from the Shanghai headquarters of MicroPort MedBot, the company that makes the surgical system, while SlavMed's medical and engineering teams stayed in the operating room in Yerevan. The signal traveled over a fiber-optic connection stretching 9,000 kilometers. Both patients underwent abdominal wall...