India is emerging as one of the world’s most consequential laboratories for telesurgery and digital healthcare innovation. Faced with a vast population, sharp urban–rural disparities, and a shortage of specialist care outside major cities, the country has been forced to do what many healthcare systems postpone — rethink how expertise, technology, and access can be decoupled from geography.
From national tele-consultation networks to AI-driven diagnostics, remote intensive care, and now a global leader in telesurgery, India’s healthcare transformation is increasingly being built not just in hospitals, but across fiber-optic cables and surgical consoles.
Within this evolving ecosystem, robotic and remote-enabled surgery has begun to play a transformative role. Advanced surgical technologies, once confined to elite urban institutions, are now being re-engineered for wider reach, lower cost, and distributed delivery.
SS Innovations has emerged as the front face of India’s Telesurgery Innovation and not as a standalone success story, but as part of India’s broader effort to make cutting-edge medical care scalable, mobile, and more equitable.
SS Innovations (SSI) exemplifies this principle through its mission to democratize robotic surgery, making advanced, world-class surgical care accessible to patients regardless of geography or economic constraints.
Under the leadership of Dr. Sudhir Srivastava, a globally respected cardiac surgeon and the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of SS Innovations., the company developed the MantraM Telesurgery Mobile Unit, a fully integrated and rapidly deployable platform, extends robotic surgery, training and surgical capabilities to underserved regions and medical communities with no access to sophisticated system.
The world’s first robotic cardiac telesurgery and intercontinental procedures spanning nearly 10,000 kilometers, conclusively demonstrating that geographic distance is no longer a limitation to expert surgical care. Complementing this innovation is MantrAsana, the world’s first fully integrated and portable telesurgery console, which combines immersive 3D visualization, advanced ergonomics, and high-fidelity connectivity to allow surgeons to operate remotely from hospitals, clinics, or home-based settings.
India’s rapid progress in telesurgery and digitally enabled care reflects a deeper shift in how healthcare is being designed for the twenty-first century. By combining indigenous engineering, connectivity, and clinical expertise, the country is beginning to show how advanced surgical techniques can move beyond physical infrastructure and become a distributed, networked service.
