December 6, 2007: Robot patient
 

http://cellar.org/2007/robotpatient.jpg

The Japanese have come up with this one, a dental patient who is... a robot. With the use of this automatron, dental students can see what it's like to drill teeth on a real-life patient before they ever drill on a real-life patient. The robot is programmed to react accurately when the drill touches a nerve.

I'd drill that.

They should make a fat, ugly robot with bad teeth and bad breath. That would give the dental students a feel for what they're getting into.

oh, man.....

all the oral sex/real doll jokes are getting jammed up in my head......

A robotic Fat Bastard, maybe?

What did they do, buy one of them "Real Doll" thingies and hook it up with electronics? Boys DO play with dolls! Creepy...

Why is she cross eyed though?

I stared at UT's post for a full three minutes, running over all the possibilities in my head.
Then I panicked and posted something quickly, just so I'd be the first one to reply.

There's a special place in Hell for hip-posters like you.

Shit, mockingbird sent me a link to this the other day that had a video with it as well...now I'll have to see if I can find that link in my history or something...

Bwahaha....found it:
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/11/...-valley-video/

Wouldn't it be cheaper to just do something like this?

...or should we wi-fi the signal to the dentist's oral nerves instead :D

I saw this story on a Japanese site a month or so ago, but without the picture, so I decided not to post it here.
IIRC the funniest bit is that "her" breasts are equipped with sensors and she reacts (negatively) to inappropriate touching. Who says engineers don't have a sense of humor?

Don't ever go away again Shawnee, please.

That was my first thought, too.. she looks just like a real doll. Only, I don't think they normally have crossed eyes. Is that for the ocular surgery students??