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Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world's first human procedure (newatlas.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/robotics

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'll just give you an example: just because CNC machine doesn't "need" a person to function, for some reason there are no operator-less stations where you can just upload AI generated design and pickup your part later

So even when machine is claimed to be "fully-autonomous" there's a guy with controller, watching and making decisions -- just like a surgeon/dentist would