NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Sept. 26 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news:

A surgical robot capable of performing an entire surgery without human intervention: That's the goal of a landmark, multi-institution project being led by a Vanderbilt engineer that recently received an award up to $12 million in funding from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H).

Robert Webster and his team set up the surgical robot for a suturing experiment.

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