Remote-controlled robots bring city healthcare experience to the outback | ABC News
Channel: ABC News (Australia)
Date: 2024-01-10

A robot, operated by health workers in Brisbane, is scanning patients' hearts more than 1,000 kilometres away in the Queensland outback.

Sonographers sitting in a tiny room at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital (RBWH) operate a handheld controller — like those used to play computer games — to manipulate the robot on patients at Longreach, in the state's remote central west.

The Queensland-designed remote-controlled robot, hailed as a world-first, is expected to help alleviate the tyranny of distance faced by patients living in remote, rural, and regional areas.

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