Indian doctor performs robot-controlled heart surgery from a remote location

An Indian surgeon has become the first the world to perform heart surgery through a robot he controlled from a remote location. Dr Tejas Patel, a cardiologist in Ahmedabad, carried out the same delicate procedure on five different patients over the course of several days. It is believed he performed the operations while he was at a temple, controlling the robot at his hospital from 20 miles (32km) away. The results of his operations, all of which were successful, have been published in a spin-off of the prestigious medical journal The Lancet. It is not, however, the first long-distance robot-controlled surgery.