Hanako the guinea-pig robot for dentists | RobotShop Community

Rather than resorting to human guinea-pigs to practice the dental profession, Japan has decided to create its own guinea-pig robot, always ready to be operated on in the mouth.

Hanako the female robotic patient can salivate, have a runny nose, move her eyes and express pain by speaking. She open


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/blog/show/hanako-the-guinea-pig-robot-for-dentists

That must be a good invention for student study. Just wondering how the name guinea pig relates to the robot…