Kuwait, Brazil set Guinness remote robotic surgery record
Doctors in Kuwait and Brazil set a Guinness World Records mark after completing a robot-assisted surgery across about 12,035 kilometers (about 7,480 miles) between the two countries, using a dedicated, low-latency international network.
The procedure connected Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital in Kuwait with the Surgical Centre for Oncology and Laparoscopic and Advanced Surgery at Hospital Cruz Vermelha in Brazil. Organizers said the operation was performed on September 23, 2025, and the record was later recognized at a presentation event hosted at Zain Kuwait’s headquarters.
The cross-continental link was delivered by Zain & Omantel International, with technical partners engineering a dedicated route between Kuwait and Brazil designed to keep performance stable during live surgical use. Reported network performance during the record attempt averaged 199 milliseconds of latency, with 80 Mbps bandwidth and 0.19% packet loss. The connectivity path cited for the operation ran Kuwait–Marseille–São Paulo, with backup routes in place to reduce disruption risk.
Organizers said the operation was a robotic inguinal hernia repair using the transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) approach. Named participants included Dr. Sulaiman Almazeedi, Dr. Marcelo Loureiro, Dr. Mohannad Alhaddad, Dr. Ahmed Karim, Dr. Hmoud Alrashidi, and Dr. Leandro Totti Cavazzola.
The project involved coordination with Kuwait’s health authorities and local partners, with the record certification presented as part of a broader push to test high-reliability networks for latency-sensitive healthcare applications.
