Health Dr. Robot will see you now? Pierre E. Dupont holds a transcatheter valve repair device with a motorized catheter drive system, replacing the traditional manual handle.Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer Alvin Powell Harvard Staff Writer August 20, 2025 8 min read Medical robotics expert says coming autonomous devices will augment skills of clinicians (not replace them), extend reach of cutting-edge procedures The robot doctor will see you now? Not for the foreseeable future, anyway...