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Nigeria Successfully Carries out first Tele-Robotic Surgery Operation across a distance of about 500 kilometres
On Saturday, 19 September 2026, a landmark procedure unfolded that few would have predicted just years earlier: a complex kidney cancer operation performed not with the surgeon standing at the patient’s bedside, but from hundreds of kilometres away. A robot-assisted right radical nephrectomy the complete removal of a kidney affected by a cancerous tumour was…
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Robotic Surgery Cuts Pain & Hastens Recovery, Ushering in a New Chapter for Nigerian Healthcare
The operation, carried out in partnership with the US-based RoboMed Global Inc., marks a practical step toward making advanced, minimally invasive surgery available within Nigeria rather than requiring patients to travel abroad. Photo Credit: Punchng
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Nigeria Performs First Robotic-Assisted Surgery with Landmark Success
Nigeria has recorded a major milestone in healthcare delivery with the successful completion of its first robotic-assisted surgery at the Specialist Hospital, Umuguma, Owerri. Photo Credit: Imo State Government Media
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Nigerian Engineer Builds a Medical AI Robot for Jaw, Bone Surgery
Mr Kenechukwu Nwajiaku, alongside his research team, have developed an intelligent robotic control system that bends and twists skeletal fixation plates to fit patients’ jaws or bones precisely thereby bridging a huge gap in Fracture and Bone Surgery. Photo Credit: Punchng
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World’s first Surgery using Teleoperated Humanoid Robots Successfully Conducted by US Team
Researchers have achieved a world first teleoperated humanoid robot surgery involving gallbladder removal completed by a human-robot team, with a surgeon assisting a humanoid robot, and a second operation carried out by two humanoid robots working together.
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