Almost as if robots and humans are now locked in a game of "anything you can do, I can do better," the latest move is a robot capable of performing fine surgical operations with minimal human supervision. The Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot – more catchily called STAR – has been developed to perform soft tissue operations using its robotic arm and some detailed computer algorithms. So far, the robot has already been able to suture together the intestines of four living pigs, all of which survived with no complications, at the Children's National Health System in Washington, DC. The researchers say the robot performed about 60 percent of the surgical operations by itself, with the rest of the work requiring only minor adjustments. Taking into consideration things such as consistency, the amount of time to perform the surgery, and the number of mistakes, they compared STAR's performance to that of a human.