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.