Robot performs realistic surgery ‘with 100% accuracy’

Undated handout photo issued by Johns Hopkins University of Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy, SRT-H , that has performed realistic surgery on its own with 100% accuracy. Picture: Juo-Tung Chen/Johns Hopkins University/PA

A robot has performed realistic surgery on its own with 100% accuracy, researchers have said.

In a “major leap” towards using more robots in operating theatres, a machine trained on the videos of surgeries was able to precisely work on removing a gallbladder.