Hanako robot behaves like a real patient when dentist works on it

It’s a weird robotic world this. When everything’s seems to be falling straight in place, you find robots with freakiest of traits popping out of nowhere. Take Hanako for instance, this freaking dental practice bot isn’t the first of its kind out of the robotic warehouses in Japan, but is better than the others at mimicking a human patient’s response during dental sittings. A collaborative effort from Tmsuk and several other Japanese universities, Hanako embedded with touch sensors in the mouth feels pain, reacts to the doctors command to open and close the mouth or for other random actions in a sitting. This practice with the bot would train students and doctors to carry out their practice sessions and actual surgeries with more precision. Hit the jump to see the bot in action helping students.

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Via: Dvice