Robot Cleaning the inside of a Tooth (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania

Robot Cleaning the inside of a Tooth

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The Penn team's micro-robots were effective at cleaning hard-to-reach surfaces. This time-lapse image shows one of their molded, helicoid-shaped robots traveling inside a tooth canal.

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Alaa Babeer, Elizabeth E. Hunter, and Hyun Koo.

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