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Tactile Robotics enters into a University-Industry Research Collaboration agreement with Toronto Metropolitan University

Applications of Digital Twins in the Healthcare Industry: Case Review of an IoT-Enabled Remote Technology in Dentistry

Tactile Robotics enters into a University-Industry Research Collaboration agreement with Toronto Metropolitan University to conduct further research and beta testing of our inventions. This partnership is focused on several areas of Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things (IoT), including DenTeach and iManus technologies. Dr. Kourosh Zareinia is the lead professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. While improving people’s health is his number 1 goal, Dr. Zareinia is also motivated by the economic reality of Canadian population drawing more and more on our healthcare system. For a solution, we look to robotics. “Long term, robotics can both reduce health-care costs and improve the quality of care by standardizing medical methods and treatments,” he says.

Applications of Digital Twins in the Healthcare Industry: Case Review of an IoT-Enabled Remote Technology in Dentistry

Industries are increasing their adoption of digital twins for their unprecedented ability to control physical entities and help manage complex systems by integrating multiple technologies. Recently, the dental industry has seen several technological advancements, but it is uncertain if dental institutions are making an effort to adopt digital twins in their education. In this work, we employ a mixed-method approach to investigate the added value of digital twins for remote learning in the dental industry.

We examine the extent of digital twin adoption by dental institutions for remote education, shed light on the concepts and benefits it brings, and provide an application-based roadmap for more extended adoption. We report a review of digital twins in the healthcare industry, followed by identifying use cases and comparing them with use cases in other disciplines. We compare reported benefits, the extent of research, and the level of digital twin adoption by industries. We distill the digital twin characteristics that can add value to the dental industry from the examined digital twin applications in remote learning and other disciplines. Then, inspired by digital twin applications in different fields, we propose a roadmap for digital twins in remote education for dental institutes, consisting of examples of growing complexity. We conclude this paper by identifying the distinctive characteristics of dental digital twins for remote learning.

DenTeach™ recently received a grant from NRC-IRAP to commercialize its products.

Applications of Digital Twins in the Healthcare Industry: Case Review of an IoT-Enabled Remote Technology in Dentistry

Tactile Robotics receives an NRC-IRAP grant to commercialize the DenTeach™ family, our sophisticated technology is used to achieve high precision, haptic-enabled, instructor-oriented training that utilizes its advanced hardware and software to enhance knowledge transfer from instructor to student. On behalf of our team, we’d like to thank the National Research Council of Canada for continuing to support us.

A recent grant that we received from NRC-IRAP to commercialize the DenTeach™ family, our sophisticated technology is used to achieve high precision, haptic-enabled, instructor-oriented training that utilizes its advanced hardware and software to enhance knowledge transfer from instructor to student.

DenTeach is a novel application of application of digital twins in the healthcare industry, a recent publication in Journal of Visual Worlds discusses.
Abstract: Industries are increasing their adoption of digital twins for their unprecedented ability to control physical entities and help manage complex systems by integrating multiple technologies. Recently, the dental industry has seen several technological advancements, but it is uncertain if dental institutions are making an effort to adopt digital twins in their education. In this work, we employ a mixed-method approach to investigate the added value of digital twins for remote learning in the dental industry. We examine the extent of digital twin adoption by dental institutions for remote education, shed light on the concepts and benefits it brings, and provide an application-based roadmap for more extended adoption. We report a review of digital twins in the healthcare industry, followed by identifying use cases and comparing them with use cases in other disciplines. We compare reported benefits, the extent of research, and the level of digital twin adoption by industries. We distill the digital twin characteristics that can add value to the dental industry from the examined digital twin applications in remote learning and other disciplines. Then, inspired by digital twin applications in different fields, we propose a roadmap for digital twins in remote education for dental institutes, consisting of examples of growing complexity. We conclude this paper by identifying the distinctive characteristics of dental digital twins for remote learning.

https://www.mdpi.com/2813-2084/1/1/3

Manitoban Company Helping University Students Learn from Home

As Universities move to online learning, Tactile Robotics is bringing the future of teaching dentistry to the forefront.

With Covid-19 cases on the rise, and the threat of a second wave looming, Tactile Robotics has created an advanced teaching-learning platform that complements traditional methods by seamlessly integrating and synchronizing video, audio, feel and posture. This new technology, known as DenTeach™, will bring orientation between the instructor and the student in real-time by using the DT-Rightway™ Articulator.

“Covid-19 has hit many individuals in many different ways,” said Dr. Yaser Maddahi, CEO and President of Tactile Robotics. “Dentistry students need to have the hands-on learning to truly learn their craft and that is where we saw a need for DenTeach™.”

Instructors are able to continue teaching their course from home on their Articulator, while students are able to learn the hands-on skills remotely.
DenTeach™ is portable and can be used in both the classroom and from home. Students and instructors can access all their data by connecting to a cloud-based data retrieval system.

Some of the features that will enhance remote learning are DenTeach’s™ integrated video augmented reality, 4 different video angles for comprehensive viewing, and drill sensations that are synchronized to the student and the instructor to create a real-life experience.

DenTeach™ currently holds utility patents (pending approval since 2018) for the technology and the integration of this platform for aspiring dental students and practitioners.

DenTeach Featured in a Newly Published Paper

We are honoured to have been able to assist in the development of a published paper based on roboethics and how this area of research can impact the future of robotics in education.

You can find the link to the paper here https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.612740/full

Tactile Robotics Accepted into the Manitoba Innovation Growth Program

We are honoured to have been selected to be a part of the Innovation Growth Program (IGP) from the Manitoba Government. The IGP provides cost-sharing assistance to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises to assist them in developing and commercializing new innovative products and processes.

Tactile Robotics, the creators of DenTeach, are helping students and instructors increase the quality of dental education through their patent pending technology that allows students to practice life-like scenarios and movements from almost anywhere. Their technology, DenTeach also lets student see and practice the visual, audio, feel, and posture cues of the instructor’s lessons.

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