Starlink enables West Africa's first telesurgical kidney removal across 500 km
elonmusk · x · 2026-09-21
A surgeon near Lagos used a Starlink connection to remotely control a surgical robot and remove a cancerous kidney from a patient in Abuja, about 500 km away — West Africa's first tele-robotic surgery. Elon Musk amplified the story as proof of Starlink's real purpose.
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