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This is great news. Many people, even in developed countries, suffer a lack of quality dental care because of the cost. Once these devices become widespread, co
by d_burfoot 2y ago
This is great news. Many people, even in developed countries, suffer a lack of quality dental care because of the cost. Once these devices become widespread, costs should start to drop significantly.
- smokel 2y agoWhy do you think that? MRI scanners are still terribly expensive machines, for example. And in most countries, the hourly wage for a dentist need not be high. It is more likely that some robot company is going to make a fortune. Whether other people profit from that is an open question.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoThere is apparently about to be a revolution in MRI, making them portable and cheap to run. I've only read pop science articles on it but I think the gist is to use software (AI!) to make up for a much weaker magnet.
- progbits 2y agoThere are fundamental signal processing limitations. AI will just hallucinate plausibly looking garbage and kill people.
- pkaye 2y agoIts not going to be cheaper than training more dentists in those countries.