{"id":146633,"date":"2022-09-18T15:24:38","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T20:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/these-shape-shifting-microrobots-can-brush-and-floss-your-teeth"},"modified":"2022-09-18T15:24:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T20:24:38","slug":"these-shape-shifting-microrobots-can-brush-and-floss-your-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/these-shape-shifting-microrobots-can-brush-and-floss-your-teeth","title":{"rendered":"These shape-shifting microrobots can brush and floss your teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-shape-shifting-microrobots-can-brush-and-floss-your-teeth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018The way it works is similar to how a robotic arm might reach out and clean a surface.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The future of dental care could have new robotic allies. A group of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania has developed an automated, hands-free oral hygiene system that adapts to the shape of your teeth.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers claim this system can clean teeth more efficiently than the toothbrush and dental floss, according to an article published by the university in July.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Wildpixel\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>A group of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania has developed an automated, hands-free oral hygiene system that adapts to the shape of your teeth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018The way it works is similar to how a robotic arm might reach out and clean a surface.\u2019 The future of dental care could have new robotic allies. A group of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania has developed an automated, hands-free oral hygiene system that adapts to the shape of your teeth. The researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}