Why wasn't it da Vinci? The story behind the first remote robotic surgery in the U.S

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all at once. Network lines. Encryption. Latency. Behavior during communication failures. Surgeon authentication. Remote credentialing. Insurance. Liability. And who can ultimately rescue the surgery at the patient's side? Surgical robots are changing from standalone medical devices into an infrastructure that connects surgeons, hospitals, communication networks, data, and safety systems. they are in the process of c

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using Toumai from 15 km away has been reported. All 27 patients successfully completed the remote surgery, there were no conversions to open surgery, the postoperative complication rate was 18.5%, and no Clavien-Dindo grade III or higher complications were observed. The total latency was approximately 226 ms on average, and the network round-trip delay was approximately 32 ms. Of course, this was a single-center, si

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What happened? On October 25, 2026, a milestone was marked in the history of robotic surgery in the United States. A surgeon in Celebration, Florida, sat at a console and performed a radical prostatectomy on a prostate cancer patient at a hospital in Minneola, about 35 miles away. The surgeon was Dr. Vipul Patel. He is a leading surgeon in this field who has performed over 21,000 robot-assisted radical prostatectomie

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s to date. In a clinical study conducted under the FDA's Investigational Device Exemption (IDE), the Society of Robotic Surgery and AdventHealth announced it as the "first robotic remote surgery in the U.S." . A surgical team was on standby at the patient's side, prepared to intervene on the spot if necessary. Up to this point, it is certainly big news. However, those who are somewhat familiar with surgical robots mi

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ght find themselves wondering about something else. Why wasn't it da Vinci? The system used this time was neither Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci 5 nor the Xi. It was Toumai , developed by China's MicroPort MedBot. When you think of robotic surgery, you think of da Vinci. This impression is even stronger when it comes to prostate cancer surgery. Moreover, the surgeon was Dr. Patel. Yet, the first robot to perform remot

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e surgery on a patient in the U.S. was not a da Vinci. This is not just a story about an emerging manufacturer being the first to cross the finish line. Rather, I believe this reveals a very important landscape for considering the future of the surgical robot competition. This article is intended for the following audiences: • Surgeons • Medical device developers • Investors • MedTech entrepreneurs • Those interested

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in medical devices and robotic technology In fact, it is not that da Vinci "could not perform remote surgery" First, we need to clear up a major misunderstanding. It is not the case that Intuitive was beaten by Toumai because it lacked remote surgery technology. If you trace the history of surgical robots, remote surgery was being researched from a very early stage. In 2001, the famous "Operation Lindbergh" was repo

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