5G opportunities

In the last issue of The Handelot Times we have already talked about the development and launch of the new 5G smartphones. As always happens with new technologies, the news follows one another relentlessly, precisely because successes and experiments on the subject follow one another.

In that occasion we already talked about the many advantages that would be gained by switching to fifth-generation networks, focusing in particular on the issue of latency, improved twenty times compared to what is currently expected in LTE cells. With 5G, in fact, the time between sending a specific input from a device connected to the network and receiving the output is reduced to a millisecond, and this would make possible projects such as, to provide a single example, Industry 4.0, a new industrial model in which machinery is remotely controlled.

Let’s see together the latest news regarding 5G. 5G: in China the first surgical operation 50 km away In the past few days the world has taken another big step towards a 5G future, experimenting with the efficiency of fifth-generation networks even in such a delicate area as surgery. In China, in fact, the first surgical operation was carried out at a distance of 50km from the patient’s body. For the first time in history, in fact, a surgeon operated a patient remotely, finding himself at an effective distance of 50km from the body and from the medical equipment necessary for the operation itself.

This happened using two robotic arms that the surgeon would remotely control via the 5G, with specially designed and built commands. Even if the operation was carried out on the body of a laboratory animal, this has nevertheless represented an important novelty that could revolutionize both the technological and especially the scientific and surgical world. With a latency of one millisecond, in fact, as emerges from the video itself, operations could be performed at a distance and avoid potential fatal errors that would cost the patient’s life.