Medtech driven by data collection and AI has significantly enhanced the scope of treatment and care, especially since it emerged as a lifesaver during the pandemic. More sophisticated and smarter machines started making appearances in hospitals to provide contactless care and also in public spaces to enforce social distancing. The Middle East has already seen medical practitioners guide robots towards removal of tumours, but now it seems the machines are ready to take control. Israeli firm Memic has launched a surgical robot which is the first of its kind, since it's a lot more like human beings and can replicate techniques of real doctors. The humanoid has arms which allow it to perform surgeries like any other medical professional, and the artificial limbs are designed to imitate a doctor's arms, down to the movement of shoulders, elbows and wrists.

A priest said he felt'completely relaxed' as surgeons performed revolutionary surgery inside his eye with the aid of a robot. The patient, Father William Beaver, 70, an associate priest at St Mary the Virgin Church in Oxford, said his eyesight was returning following the operation, having previously experienced distorted vision similar to'looking in a hall of mirrors at a fairground'. The procedure - the world's first robotic operation - was carried out by surgeons at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, who welcomed its success and said it could revolutionise the way such conditions are treated. Father Beaver told BBC Breakfast: 'I was completely relaxed and completely comfortable because I could see that all the technology was in place and all the goodwill was in place and all the skills were in place. Professor Robert MacLaren says scientists'have just witnessed a vision of eye surgery in the future' 'Because, you see, the key is the precision.