Sept. 11 — China’s National Healthcare Security Administration organized a
morning expert meeting on surgical robots with representatives from seven
domestic and foreign manufacturers, including MicroPort, Medtronic,
Intuitive‑Fosun, Stryker, Huake Precision, Shenzhen Jingfeng and Beijing
Tianzhihang, and delegations from Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Peking
University People’s Hospital, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Jishuitan Hospital and
Beijing Tongren Hospital. Participants broadly agreed that surgical-robot
functions should be expanded beyond high-concentration areas (urology,
orthopedics, general surgery) into targeted applications such as neurosurgery
and interventional specialties; that development should be closely integrated
with fast‑advancing brain‑computer interface technology, intelligent robots and
AI; and that adoption should draw on other robotics best practices, broaden
clinical use cases and proceed toward partial or full autonomy with caution,
evidence‑based steps.
