Simroid (a.k.a. ‘Pain Girl’) on TV
Simroid, the silicone-skinned, pneumatically-powered female patient robot designed to help train dental students, recently appeared on the Fuji TV show Idainaru Miraizukan. (Watch video.)
In addition to highlighting Simroid’s ability to interact with dentists and react to mouth pain, the show features an interview with Dr. Naotake Shibui of the Nippon Dental University in Tokyo, who helped develop the robot with engineers from Kokoro Co., Ltd. According to the interview, Simroid is modeled after a 28-year-old woman, and her fear of dentists and sensitivity to pain have earned her the nickname “Pain Girl” (Ita-gaaru). Asked why Simroid is female, Shibui explains that female patients must be treated with more sensitivity than male patients. With sensors embedded in her chest, Simroid can teach dentists-in-training to pay close attention to where they place their elbows.
Simroid’s primary purpose is to help dental students improve their patient communication skills.
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This is one amazing robot. I imagine it when it gets broken and starts bitting the dental students working on her.
How cool, yet creepy. Good to know the dolls are going to more use than just sex.
LOL, good point Aikyrie. This is how any decent android anime starts, then once the robots become so commonplace in society, they will revolt.
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