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But as soon as Lydia left the office, the others crowded around to check out the questions. All they could do was stare at each other, totally confused.

What?

Lydia stepped into the competition hall just as the bell sounded. The place felt huge, almost like a concert stadium, and suddenly, it seemed like every single person there was watching her.

That's Lydia.

First place in the morning round.

She ignored all the stares. Pulling her loose ponytail tighter, she glanced over to where her team was sitting and made her way there.

Once she sat down, Lydia glanced at the judges' table. Lucy and Anders were already in their seats.

The question committee was whispering among themselves, probably stumped by the three problems Lydia had written earlier.

Chief examiner Emerson cleared his throat and adjusted his glasses. We're starting the first challenge: How to use a robot for clinical case simulation."

As soon as the big screen lit up, Lydia heard people around her gasp.

The scan showed a web of blood vessels tangled deep in brain tissue, black and twisted like a spiderweb dipped in ink. It was a world-class medical puzzle-a rare case of brain arteriovenous malformation with an aneurysm.

"Each team has thirty minutes to come up with a surgical plan and explain the possible risks during the operation."

Lydia's finger had just brushed the buzzer when the team from Country D beat her to it.

Noah, his white coat collar open a little, spoke with a calm that felt a bit too practiced. "The case is extremely complex. We recommend a classic open craniotomy, using microsurgical tools to slowly separate the abnormal vessels."

A few scattered claps came from the audience.

Lydia noticed Lucy on the judges' panel give a small nod, her lips curling with satisfaction.

Lydia just rolled her eyes internally. She opened the holographic screen in front of her, fingers moving fast on the virtual keyboard. Soft blue light flickered in her eyes-this was the interface for their newest creation, the X surgical robot.

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"Our team has a different plan." Lydia's voice rang out, calm and clear, filling the whole hall.

She stood up, her white coat swinging behind her.

"We'd use robot-assisted endovascular embolization."

The crowd broke into an instant buzz.

Anders leaned forward, looking skeptical. "Can a robot really handle such complicated blood vessels? Lydia, are you sure this isn't just a video game for you?"

Lydia didn't bother to answer. Instead, she pulled up a 3D model of the brain's blood vessels. The red tangle representing the malformation spun slowly on the holo- screen, looking almost like a ball of fire.

"Take a look here." Her finger hovered over a fork in the vessels.

"With traditional surgery, it takes at least forty-five minutes to expose the area. But with a robot and a

microcatheter just point three et

millimeters wide, we can reach the core of the problem in fifteen minutes."

?

Suddenly the whole room seemed to hold its breath.

The representative from R Country glanced at his watch, as if he could actually see

the seconds ticking by.

Lydia brought up a side-by-side data

comparison. Traditional surgery's

complication rate on the left, the

robot's simulated results on

the

right. The line showing a sixty-seven

percent drop in risk cut straight

through everyone's doubts.

But robots don't have a sense of touch. How do you avoid damaging the perforating arteries?" Lucy asked from the judges' table.

"With algorithms." Lydia pulled up the backend code interface, lines of green data streaming past

"We built a brain vessel database tailored specifically for our population. Every single perforating artery's position has been verified against a hundred thousand clinical images."