ICT&health November 26, 2025
For stroke care, speed is everything. Yet for millions of people living far from major medical centers, access to life-saving treatment can take hours, often with devastating consequences. A new generation of robotic and telerobotic systems aims to change that. By enabling expert neuro-interventionalists to perform emergency procedures across vast distances, these technologies could dramatically improve access to endovascular thrombectomy (EVT), the gold-standard treatment for large-vessel strokes.
In regions like northern Australia, patients may wait six hours or more before reaching a specialist. “Time is brain,” notes neurologist Cameron Williams of the Australian Stroke Alliance. Each minute of blocked blood flow destroys an estimated two million neurons. Remote robotics, he argues, could eliminate critical delays by bringing expertise virtually to...
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