A Japanese company offers a humanoid robot for training future dentists.
Getting treatment for a bunt is never a pleasant thing for anyone and the dentist must be taken into account in improving its technical intervention to relieve his patients, including those for which the rumble of the famous strawberry gives sweats cold.
In order to train future dentists to treat properly cavities while guaranteeing a minimum of pain for patients, the Japanese company Kokoro created a robot named Simroid. Presented on Wednesday in Tokyo, Japan, it is a humanoid robot in the form of a woman measuring 1.60 metres, with long hair and was wearing a pink sweater and pants white. If it badly during the intervention, Simroid can verbally express his pain or froncant eyebrows like a real patient. A sensor was also placed on the chest of the robot, to detect any gesture displaced students. Tatsuo Matsuzaki, who took part in the realization of this robot, told the news agency AFP: “Simroid has such realism that apprentices dentists will be able to measure the reactions of patients and thus be able to improve their technique in the Whereas not as an object, but as a human being. This helps to share the suffering of the patient, without hurting anyone. ”
Naotake Shibui, a professor at the School of Medicine Japanese from Tokyo, has already incorporated this humanoid robot in her classes since last September. For him, “the technique of care is important, but it is also useful to feel what it is to be a patient.”
Without going so far as to say that our dentists are executioners strongly that this type of robot arrives at us.