A robotic machine has succeeded at stitching two segments of an animal's bowel together, an advance for the tricky field of soft tissue surgery, researchers said.
The machine, called the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (Star), does not replace the need for a skilled surgeon, but acts as a tool to improve the accuracy of stitching, said the report in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
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