Robot Performs Soft-Tissue Surgery By Itself

With a bulky camera eye and spindly hydraulic arm, this medical robot looks like it could fit in on an automotive production line. It carefully scans soft, sticky intestinal tissue and delicately weaves stitches with unmatched surgical precision. Indeed, with no guiding hand from its fellow doctors, it is the best in the world at performing the medical operation it was designed for. It is performing surgery all by itself. The surgical bot is named STAR, or Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, and it just performed the world's first autonomous, soft-tissue surgery.