United Kingdom, March 7 -- A surgeon has successfully guided a robot through a prostate removal surgery - 1,500 miles away.

Prof. Prokar Dasgupta - a professor of urology who heads The London Clinic's robotic centre of excellence - performed the procedure from the UK capital on 62-year-old Paul Boxton via a hi-tech four-armed robot, which was fitted with a 3D camera, at St. Berbard's hospital in Gibraltar.

The professor used a console in London to guide Microport's Toumai Robotic System through a series of steps to successfully remove the organ, with a lag of just 0.06 seconds between the surgeon and the robot.

Paul - who has prostate cancer - insisted it was a "no-brainer" to be the "guinea pig" for the surgery.

He said: "A lot of pe...