Perceptive announced it performed the world’s first fully automated dental procedure using a robot. The system integrates AI, 3D imaging, and robotics, enabling tasks like crown placements in just 15 minutes. Perceptive claims their robotic dentist can diagnose and plan treatments using a 3D volumetric data procedure and an optical coherence technology (OCT) scan. Perceptive’s CEO, Chris Ciriello, mentioned that FDA approval could take up to five years.
Can’t go wrong. Nope, this is without risk and amazing!
Doesn’t have to be without risk - just has to have the same risk. Plenty of risk in regular dentistry
Perceptive announced a few days ago that it performed the world’s first fully automated dental procedure with the help of a robot.
Yeah, but what procedure?
I’m guessing a basic cleaning since they didn’t say what kind.
Seems like a stretch to call that a surgery
I imagine they started simple!
The only surgical robot I’ve seen used (at the 4 hospitals I’ve worked at) is the davinci, by Intuitive. None of those hospitals actually own the robot - it’s like a permanent rental.
They’re connected to the internet and send every single input to Intuitive - supposedly so they can assist better with telephone service when something fucks up.
100% guarantee they’re using that data to train machine learning with the end-goal of being able to just hit a “cholecystectomy” button and then sit and watch the robot do the whole thing.
