Conventional operating theatres would typical consist of multiple medical devices, each operating in a silo-ed fashion and incapable of communicating with one another. But a team at Tokyo Women's Medical University (TWMU) in Japan is aiming to move away from this norm and equip the operating theatre with integrated medical equipment and robotics in order to enhance surgical precision and improve patient outcomes. The project, dubbed Smart Cyber Operating Theatre (SCOT), is funded by Japan's Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and led by Yoshihiro Muragaki (pictured right), a professor and neurosurgeon at TWMU's Faculty of Advanced Techno-Surgery. Founded in 2001, the SCOT team started out with six surgeons and five engineers. Designed for brain tumor surgery, one aspect of SCOT comprises the monitoring and display of a patient's condition in real-time during surgery.