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.

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.

  • greedytacothief@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Novacaine doesn’t do a very good job of numbing me, especially as I’ve gotten older. Would a robot know to put more on once I start screaming?

    Also I hate novacaine, feels bad, then I’m nauseous after.