Country: 
State: 
Texas
School: 
Lebanon Trail High School

It began as an idea to help others get access to good doctors, and doctors getting access to patients and patient care practice through VR.  It has evolved into health care practice that can be operated with VR/robotics.  

Imagine a doctor in the U.S., and a sick patient at a clinic in Guatemala.  Using satellite technology, a doctor, using VR, can operate the robotic limbs of the machine in Guatemala and perform the surgery, just as the doctor in the U.S. performs robotic surgery on their patients here, but the only difference is that it is being operated from a distance.  

SDG: 
1 No poverty
3 Good health
9 Innovation and infrastructure
10 Reduced inequalities
16 Peace and justice
New invention or prototype?: 
yes
Existing innovation?: 
no