Robot carries out full heart operation

We have finally reached the beginning of a new era. High priced surgeons will be no more as the first fully automated (robot) heart surgery was performed on a patient with an ailing heart:

The 50-minute surgery, which took place in a Milan hospital, was carried out on a 34-year-old patient suffering from atrial fibrillation. Dozens of heart specialists attending an international congress on arrhythmia in Boston also watched.

Pappone has used the robot surgeon in at least 40 operations.

“It has learned to do the job thanks to experience gathered from operations on 10,000 patients,” Pappone said, pointing out that the robot carries the expertise of several human surgeons used to boost its software.

I’m not exactly sure on how successful or not the surgery was as the article conveniently left that information. So, how does the thought of automated surgeries sound for you?