Japanese Dental Robot
March 30th, 2009
Here’s a bot used for dental training. As if dentistry wasn’t creepy enough. Dr. Naotake Shibui and some engineers from Kokoro have developed a dental training robot known as Simroid aka Pain Girl.
Simroid has sensors in her mouth and chest and can respond verbally in order to teach dentists what not to do. Or maybe it will scare them into doing the job right. It’s not nearly as cool as the robot brushing Cindy Crawford’s teeth, but hey, one’s for brushing and one flops around on a chair freaking out.
