UK ‘surgeons of the future’ training with robots to perform surgery

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August 3, 2026

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UK ‘surgeons of the future’ training with robots to perform surgery

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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Pulling his face away from an immersive 3D headset looking deep inside a patient’s lung, doctor Sasha Stamenkovic recounted the final steps of an operation using robots to remove a tumour.

“We’ve done some very, very intricate operating today,” said the 60-year-old consultant thoracic surgeon.

“We’ve saved a lot of lung, we’ve gone around some really, really small vessels and really small airways.”

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