Move over, Dr. McDreamy—there’s a new surgeon in town, and it’s got more arms than a sci-fi octopus! The Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) is stitching up colons with submillimeter swagger, making human surgeons look like they’re playing Operation with shaky hands. At Johns Hopkins, these bots are practicing laparoscopic surgery on pigs, sewing with precision that’d make your grandma’s quilt jealous. The future of surgery? It’s less “scalpel, please” and more “robot, take the wheel!”
Robots Are Starting to Make Decisions in the Operating Room
