Barcelona hospital performs world's first fully robotic lung transplant

STORY: Barcelona hospital performs world's first fully robotic lung transplant DATELINE: April 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:31 LOCATION: Barcelona, Spain CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona 2. various of pictures of the surgery 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Catalan): ALBERT JAUREGUI, Head of the Thoracic Surgery and Lung Transplants Department at Vall d'Hebron 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Spanish): XAVIER, Lung transplant patient STORYLINE: Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona has carried out the world's first fully robotic lung transplant using a minimally invasive technique that does not require cutting through bone. Surgeons announced on Monday that they utilized a four-armed "Da Vinci" medical robot to make an eight-centimeter incision above the diaphragm to remove the damaged lung and insert a new one. This groundbreaking procedure avoids the traditional method of separating the ribs to open up the thorax, which was the only available option until now. The doctors also noted that i

Shortest woman

Shortest woman

NEW YORK, United States - Jyoti Amge, 19, is pictured with her parents at the Empire State Building in New York on Sept. 12, 2013. The 62.7-centimeter-tall Indian attended a Guinness World Records ceremony to certify her as the world's shortest living woman.

'7-million-yen' platinum toy car displayed

'7-million-yen' platinum toy car displayed

SENDAI, Japan - A one-of-a-kind pure platinum toy car under the long-selling Tomica brand name, which would be worth 7 million yen if put on sale, is displayed at an outlet of Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. in Sendai on May 19, 2010. Tanaka Kikinzoku produced the 7-centimeter, 210-gram model, based on Nissan Motor Co.'s Fairlady Z 432 sports car, jointly with toy maker Tomy Co. to mark the 40th anniversary of the debut of the toy car series.

New version of 'Dragon Quest' to be marketed in Sept.

New version of 'Dragon Quest' to be marketed in Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Game software developer SQUARE ENIX Co. will put on the market Sept. 19 a new version of its popular ''Dragon Quest'' home video game software that includes a plastic sword (foreground) and a small camera (background). If users move the 40-centimeter sword some 1.5 meters away from a TV screen, the camera captures the sword's movement and shows it on the screen.

Shipment of square watermelons begins in Kagawa

Shipment of square watermelons begins in Kagawa

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Workers at an agricultural cooperative in Kagawa Prefecture make preparations June 12 for the shipment of square watermelons that look like huge dice. The Zentsuji branch of the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (Zen-Noh) will ship about 700 cubic watermelons, grown in 19 x 19 centimeter glass boxes, to the domestic market as well as to Hong Kong and Canada, among other places. The specialty of the Zentsuji cooperative fetches around 10,000 yen each wholesale and is only for exhibition.

Shipment of square watermelons begins in Kagawa

Shipment of square watermelons begins in Kagawa

TAKAMATSU, Japan - Workers at an agricultural cooperative in Kagawa Prefecture make preparations June 12 for the shipment of square watermelons that look like huge dice. The Zentsuji branch of the National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (Zen-Noh) will ship about 700 cubic watermelons, grown in 19 x 19 centimeter glass boxes, to the domestic market as well as to Hong Kong and Canada, among other places. The specialty of the Zentsuji cooperative fetches around 10,000 yen each wholesale and is only for exhibition. (Kyodo)

'7-million-yen' platinum toy car displayed

'7-million-yen' platinum toy car displayed

SENDAI, Japan - A one-of-a-kind pure platinum toy car under the long-selling Tomica brand name, which would be worth 7 million yen if put on sale, is displayed at an outlet of Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. in Sendai on May 19, 2010. Tanaka Kikinzoku produced the 7-centimeter, 210-gram model, based on Nissan Motor Co.'s Fairlady Z 432 sports car, jointly with toy maker Tomy Co. to mark the 40th anniversary of the debut of the toy car series. (Kyodo)

Stray chameleon kept at Kawasaki police station

Stray chameleon kept at Kawasaki police station

Photo taken April 24, 2017, shows a stray chameleon kept at Tama Police Station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo. A local resident found the 15-centimeter long chameleon in a bicycle parking space at an apartment building on April 19 and reported it to the police. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

JR West apologizes for crack found in bullet train

JR West apologizes for crack found in bullet train

Norihiko Yoshie (R), vice president of train operator West Japan Railway Co., speaks at a press conference in Osaka on Dec. 19, 2017, about a 16-centimeter-long crack that was found in an undercarriage of a running shinkansen bullet train on Dec. 11. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

JR West apologizes for crack found in bullet train

JR West apologizes for crack found in bullet train

Norihiko Yoshie (R), vice president of train operator West Japan Railway Co., bows in apology after a press conference in Osaka on Dec. 19, 2017. A 16-centimeter-long crack was found in an undercarriage of a running shinkansen bullet train on Dec. 11. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Stray chameleon kept at Kawasaki police station

Stray chameleon kept at Kawasaki police station

Photo taken April 24, 2017, shows a stray chameleon kept at Tama Police Station in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo. A local resident found the 15-centimeter long chameleon in a bicycle parking space at an apartment building on April 19 and reported it to the police. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

New version of 'Dragon Quest' to be marketed in Sept.

New version of 'Dragon Quest' to be marketed in Sept.

TOKYO, Japan - Game software developer SQUARE ENIX Co. will put on the market Sept. 19 a new version of its popular ''Dragon Quest'' home video game software that includes a plastic sword (foreground) and a small camera (background). If users move the 40-centimeter sword some 1.5 meters away from a TV screen, the camera captures the sword's movement and shows it on the screen. (Kyodo)

Researchers succeed in writing micro-character with laser

Researchers succeed in writing micro-character with laser

OSAKA, Japan - Photo shows a minute letter 'H' written by a team of Osaka University researchers on a piece of glass 10 micrometers square using a laser. The team, led by Hiroshi Masuhara, professor of applied physics at the university's graduate school of engineering, said four million characters can be written on a 2-square-centimeter postage stamp using their micro-technology. The photo was released Oct. 19 by Prof. Masuhara.

Another crack found in pipe of Tsuruga nuclear reactor

Another crack found in pipe of Tsuruga nuclear reactor

TSURUGA, Japan - Japan Atomic Power Co. released July 19 this picture showing a 7.6-centimeter-long crack on the inner wall of a pipe removed from a Tsuruga nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast. The company has found a 9.9-cm-long crack on the outer surface of the pipe, from which more than 50 tons of radioactive water leaked July 12.

Another crack found in pipe of Tsuruga nuclear reactor

Another crack found in pipe of Tsuruga nuclear reactor

TSURUGA, Japan - Japan Atomic Power Co. released July 19 this picture showing a 7.6-centimeter-long crack on the inner wall of a pipe removed from a Tsuruga nuclear reactor in Fukui Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast. The company has found a 9.9-cm-long crack on the outer surface of the pipe, from which more than 50 tons of radioactive water leaked July 12.