These past few days, I’ve had the privilege of experiencing one of the most exciting moments of my professional career. Together with my team at ROC Clinic, we have led the first telesurgery ever performed in Spain between two different locations in Madrid, and the first telesurgery between two European Union countries (Belgium–Spain), carried out from Orsi Academy in Ghent (Belgium).
This milestone marks a turning point in the history of urological surgery and in the way we understand the medicine of the future.
On October 13 and 14, we performed two remote radical prostatectomies in patients with prostate cancer using the Toumai surgical robot, developed by MedBot MicroPort and distributed in Spain by Medicina Analítica Consumibles (MAC).
In the first procedure, I had the opportunity to operate from the console located at HM Montepríncipe University Hospital, while the patient was in an operating room at HM Sanchinarro Hospital, fully monitored by our team. On the 14th, the procedure took an international leap: from Belgium, my colleague Dr. Ricardo Brime remotely performed the surgery, while our team in Madrid, led by Dr. Juan Justo Quintas, assisted the patient in the operating room.
The outcome was flawless — two procedures performed with precision, safety, and perfect coordination. The connection was completely stable and fluid, and the robot’s movements were executed without any delay. Telesurgery has arrived to make surgical excellence travel beyond physical borders.
This achievement is the result of months of preparation, teamwork, and commitment. It represents not only a technical validation, but also proof that robotic telesurgery is a real, viable, and safe tool capable of transforming how specialists collaborate and share knowledge. Thanks to the Toumai robot, a state-of-the-art platform for minimally invasive surgery, we were able to operate with precision, immediacy, and complete confidence.
As a surgeon, seeing how technology enables us to bring excellence wherever the patient needs it is one of the greatest rewards. Being able to connect teams, support smaller centers, and proctor remotely opens a new horizon for urology and for medicine as a whole. A future where top specialists will collaborate in real time from different parts of the world — without geographic barriers — ensuring that every patient receives the best possible care. Robotic telesurgery is now a reality, and with it, a new model of collaborative, connected, and patient-centered medicine.
For me, it is an honor to have been the first surgeon to perform a telesurgery in Spain and to have led the first intra-European telesurgery, but this achievement does not belong to one person or one institution. It is the result of the vision, effort, and passion of a team committed to innovation and to improving patients’ lives.
