The robot did something that previously took a very highly trained person to do. It&#x27;s a huge accomplishment and not misleading at all.<p>You may not have read the article because it explicitly mentions the system you linked to:<p>&gt; The current state-of-the-art robot for soft tissue surgery is the da Vinci system from Intuitive Surgical, but it’s not automated at all. The da Vinci is a teleoperated system, in which the surgeon sits at a console and manipulates controls in dexterous maneuvers that are mimicked by tiny tools inside the patient’s body.