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Pierre E Dupont1

  • 1Pierre E. Dupont is the Edward P. Marram chair and chief, Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering, Boston Children's Hospital, and professor of surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

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Numerous challenges in medicine could be addressed by harnessing autonomy and artificial intelligence in medical robots.

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