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On November 2, 2026, Wu Peng, director of the Department of Urology at Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University, proposed at the Second Nanyue Artificial Intelligence Medical Robot Forum that the technical focus of surgical robots is shifting from precisely executing doctors' operations to possessing auxiliary judgment capabilities, actively playing a role in auxiliary diagnosis, intraoperative blood vessel boundary identification, and bleeding risk warning. The same report mentioned that urology teams in China have carried out multiple explorations of cross-regional and intercontinental remote robotic surgery, with the farthest attempt being remote surgery between China and Europe with bidirectional communication distances exceeding 20,000 kilometers. Wu Peng also pointed out that for remote surgery to move from technical demonstrations to routine medical care, systems still need to be established for network redundancy, surgeon admission, on-site emergency response, data security, and liability determination.
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Expert: Equipping surgical robots with a "brain" will bring remote surgery to a new clinical stage
Wu Peng, Director of the Urology Department at Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University, said at the Second Nanyue AI Medical Robot Forum that the technological focus of surgical robots is shifting from precisely executing doctors' operations to possessing auxiliary judgment capabilities, actively playing a role in auxiliary diagnosis, intraoperative blood vessel boundary identification, and bleeding risk warning. Chinese urology teams have carried out multiple explorations of cross-regional and transcontinental remote robotic surgery, with the farthest attempt being remote surgery between China and Europe with a two-way communication distance exceeding 20,000 kilometers. Wu Peng pointed out that for remote surgery to move from technical demonstrations to routine medical care, it is still necessary to establish systems for network redundancy, surgeon admission, on-site emergency response, data security, and liability determination.