He said robotic bowel surgery was already being carried out in Gibraltar, while the telesurgery programme would expand further. “Traditional robotic surgery for bowel is already happening in Gibraltar. “Today, standard robotic surgery is where the surgeon is in the same room as the patient,”Prof Dasgupta said. “Now, that is also robotic surgery where the surgeon was 2,400 kilometres away.” He added there was also unequal access to robotic surgery globally, including in the UK, as it depends on location with cities having more robotic surgery facilities.