Fully-Automatic Robot Dentist Performs World’s First Human Procedure
August 2nd, 2024Via: New Atlas:
Nightmare fuel? Maybe – but in a historic moment for the dental profession, an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, about eight times faster than a human dentist could do it.
The system, built by Boston company Perceptive, uses a hand-held 3D volumetric scanner, which builds a detailed 3D model of the mouth, including the teeth, gums and even nerves under the tooth surface, using optical coherence tomography, or OCT.
Wow, I didn’t realize just how close our overlords were to completely replacing the bottom ~94% of us (for you Guidestones fans 😀 ) with robots. This is a significant milestone, I would think.