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. The surgical bot is named STAR, or Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, and it just performed the world's first autonomous, soft-tissue surgery. STAR is the creation of a team of computer scientists and medical researchers led by Peter Kim, a biochemist at the Children's National Health System in Washington D.C.