A da Vinci surgical robot successfully performed a kidney surgery for a six-year-old boy in the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou city, south China's Guangdong province on November 16, 2015.

The hospital said on Thursday that the surgery is the very first robotic one performed on kid in the south China region.

The child patient was diagnosed as severe left kidney hydronephrosis. As the patient is old enough and his symptoms were clear-cut, the hospital decided to employ the da Vinci Surgical System, using robotic manipulators. During the surgery, the surgeon sat behind the screen with a magnified view of the surgical site and operated the machine's arms. The system is celebrated for its precision.

The surgery was completed within two hours and 20 minutes, one hour less than normal laparoscopic surgeries. According to Xu Zhe, surgeon for this robotic surgery, the child bled very little, and the suture was neat.

The child is now steadily recovering.