Teleoperated humanoids perform surgery on live animals

Claim

Teleoperated humanoids performed surgery on live animals for the first time, including two robots operating side by side, while Ant Group released a general robot policy pre-trained on 60,000 hours of physical data across 20 robot bodies.

Reported metric: 60,000 hours / 20 bodies

Reporting date: 2026-07-09 (not necessarily the event date)

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