What will Robot Finger find in your cavities?

[beschizza]

Originally published at: What will Robot Finger find in your cavities? - Boing Boing

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[Tamsin_Bailey]

[Grey_Devil]

[Steve_L]

I can think of a couple use cases for this: remote medicine (put one of these in the research stations in Antarctica in case of a medical emergency, to give doctors thousands of miles away some semblance of tactile information) and explosives ordnance disposal (give a bomb disposal robot a more nuanced sense of touch to investigate devices) first come to mind.

[gracchus]

[sdmikev]

[FSogol]

@beschizza

bioinspired soft finger,

Am I only one that imagined that the first one of these would be slightly bigger?

[theophrastus]

may have to add ‘bioinspired’, or hey… “bioinspirational!”, to my yellowing business card.

[Surprise_Puma]

I was just thinking it would work nicely for finding breaks and clogs in underground pipes. Probably some other plumbing applications that don’t involve our own internal plumbing as well.

[Shuck]

Robot rectal exams when?

@beschizza

Certain law enforcement types looking at this and smiling as they remember exactly how qualified immunity works.

Forced rectal exams by law enforcement when?

[cleveremi]

This afternoon, and by the side of the highway, if you give enough of them to the Texas highway patrol, that’s my guess.

[CLamb]

From the headline I thought this would be about a tool for profiling dental caries.