“Perceptive yesterday announced the completion of a fully automated dental procedure on a human using its advanced robotic system,” reports The Robot Report:
The Boston-based startup designed its technology with integrated advanced imaging, artificial intelligence, and robotics. It aims to set a new standard of care in dentistry.
So far, Perceptive has raised $30 million. Its investors include PDS Health, Dr. Ed Zuckerberg (father of Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg), Innospark Ventures, KdT Ventures, Primavera Capital, Plaisance Capital, and Y Combinator.
The company’s dental system uses AI-driven 3D imaging software with a robotic arm. It claimed that its robot enables speed and precision in dental procedures, and it is starting with restorative dentistry.
Perceptive added that its proprietary system could eventually complete tasks such as crown placements in just 15 minutes. Crown placements currently require two office visits of at least one hour each, it noted.
Last year, doctors used a surgical robot to carry out incredibly complicated spinal surgery. They also did the first robotic liver transplant in America.
Robots are improving productivity in other industries. Robots with artificial intelligence are spreading on Japanese farms. On some American farms, there are drones with artificial intelligence, and robots that use artificial intelligence to kill 100,000 weeds per hour. Scientists have developed tiny robots to repair damaged cells, and nanorobots to destroy cancerous tumors.
Robots are replacing some fast-food workers after California increased the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 per hour, which many franchises just can’t afford. Thousands of fast-food workers lost their jobs due to the minimum wage hike.
German robots are hunting the sea for tens of thousands of unexploded World War II bombs found in the North Sea.
