Satellites enable 650 km remote dental checkup in the UK

Published on February 2, 2026
A dentist at ESA’s European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications (ECSAT) in the UK controlling a robotic arm at the University of Glasgow’s SCENE facility at Loch Lomond.

A doctor located at the European Space Agency's site in Oxfordshire conducted a remote dental exam on a simulated patient 650 km away in Scotland, using a robotic arm operated via space-enabled 5G.  

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