Posted by ketyung
on Jul/02/2009
at 4:23 am
We’ve seen the spoon-feeding robot, but now comes the Chewing robot. My first guess was the Chewing Robot could probably be chewing the food on behalf of the laziest butt on earth. But nope, the chewing robot was made by researchers for the sake of helping understand and study deeply the dental structures and wears of the human teeth.
The Chewing Robot was developed by the researchers from the University of Bristol’s Department of Mechanical Engineering in collaboration with the Department of Oral and Dental Science. This robot will be used to test dental materials, so dentist can experiment with many new materials before making them into the human jaw.
The Chewing robot is based on 3D mechanism with six linear actuators reproducing motion and force sustained by teeth, it actually replicates the human jaw to the fullest. This robot serves as a chewing simulator that lets dentists try out all possible elements and test them to perfection.
The Chewing Robot is currently on exhibition at the ongoing Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition (June 30 to Jul 04). This is definitely a helpful robot to ensure dentists can test all the possible materials and ensure that no wrong materials to go into our mouth that may break our jaws.
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