Tele-Robotics to add new dimension to healthcare with value addition through AI: Dr Jitendra Singh

• Tele-Robotic Ultrasonography (TUS/TRUS) — an AI- and robotics-enabled remote diagnostic system letting a sonographer in one location manipulate an ultrasound probe on a patient thousands of km away via a six-degrees-of-freedom robotic arm.
• India demonstrated a live ultrasound from AIIMS New Delhi to Maitri Station, Antarctica (~12,000 km) on 16 Feb 2026 — first known deployment at an Antarctic research base globally.
• Examinable as a convergence of GS-III (Sci-Tech, AI, health-tech, indigenous innovation) and GS-II (health service delivery, remote/tribal access).