As a programmer who used to work with the development of training simulations for surgeons, I find this tremendously exciting.<p>The company I used to work for focused on using computers to improve the state of surgery, primarily laparoscopy, by using virtual reality to train surgeons. This is an alternative approach, teaching the computer to perform the procedure itself, rather than to evaluate its performance.<p>As a side note: I actually spent a fair bit of time exercising with modules for suturing, including specifically for the small intestines, and it&#x27;s definitely quite fiddly work.