Did you know that preventable medical errors are the third-leading cause of death (about 400,000 annually) in the US and have resulted in $36 billion national cost for preventable surgical errors? *Advanced robotics-assisted surgery systems combined with high quality 5G-based end-to-end connectivity could make a dramatic positive difference in those numbers. What’s needed, however, are Big Data, cloud, AI and analytics platforms and Edge processing to make these systems portable, accessible, affordable and safe.