{"id":36740,"date":"2011-07-03T15:43:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-03T15:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/coming-to-a-dental-school-near-you-the-dental-robot-with-the-sex-doll-face-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2011-07-03T15:43:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T15:43:46","slug":"coming-to-a-dental-school-near-you-the-dental-robot-with-the-sex-doll-face-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/coming-to-a-dental-school-near-you-the-dental-robot-with-the-sex-doll-face-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"Coming to a Dental School Near You: The Dental Robot With the Sex-Doll Face | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news dental students: soon you will no longer have to approach your first victim patient with shaky, unsure hands. Researchers at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Showa_University\">Showa University<\/a> in Japan have unveiled a new dental dummy, a realistic robot for dental students to practice on before taking the drill to real, human mouths.<\/p><p>I use the term &ldquo;dummy&rdquo; here loosely. Showa Tanako 2, as the researchers call her, has a wide range of human-like features. She can engage in simple conversations, flinch, roll her eyes, cough, and close her mouth like a real patient suffering from jaw fatigue. Oh, and she has a gag reflex.<\/p><p>So how did a group of dental researchers build such a realistic&mdash;albeit slightly scary&mdash;looking robot? Naturally, they sought help from Japanese sex doll maker, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/doll.wikia.com\/wiki\/Orient_Industry\">Orient Industry<\/a>, who helped fashion the robot&rsquo;s skin, tongue, and mouth. If the doll&rsquo;s face didn&rsquo;t look realistic, it wouldn&rsquo;t &ldquo;have the same effect on users psychologically,&rdquo; Showa University professor Koutaro Maki said in the video released by DigInfo. &ldquo;How doctors and students actually feel in the presence of a patient is a really big factor.&rdquo;<\/p><p>On top of her movements, speech, and look, Showa Tanako 2 has one final similarity to human patients: she judges. ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/iYREyxHnSSIhI8ty7Y4QaoX1RGA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bc0af_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/iYREyxHnSSIhI8ty7Y4QaoX1RGA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bc0af_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/bc0af_j10IemQKATU\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/adbfe_qBSGVMC89ag\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news dental students: soon you will no longer have to approach your first victim patient with shaky, unsure hands. Researchers at Showa University in Japan have unveiled a new dental dummy, a realistic robot for dental students to practice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/coming-to-a-dental-school-near-you-the-dental-robot-with-the-sex-doll-face-discoblog.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}