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A child-sized doll screams and rolls its eyes as it lays on a table while engineer Hiroki Takimoto looks on calmly.
But is no child's toy. The doll is a humanoid robot that can mimic critical medical symptoms designed to train dental workers.
Co-developed by Japanese robotics startup Tmsuk and a local dental school, the robot, named the Pedia_Roid, was designed to simulate a child's response when receiving dental treatment, including changes to its medical condition.