Some interesting news: the first autonomous soft tissue surgery, sounds like a notable breakthrough in machine vision was involved for distinguishing all the messy, fleshy internals of the (porcine) patient.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a20718/first-autonomous-soft-tissue-surgery/
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