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Tactile Robotics Enters into a University-Industry Research Collaboration Agreement with Toronto Metropolitan University

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

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.

Tactile Robotics Recently Received a Grant from NRC-IRAP for Advancing Product Commercialization Efforts with Enhanced Resources.

Tactile Robotics recently received a grant from NRC-IRAP to commercialize its products.

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.

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CageView enters a new beta trial at Toronto Metropolitan University, showcasing its cutting-edge capabilities and potential.

CageView in a new beta trial at Toronto Metropolitan University

Researchers at the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at Toronto Metropolitan University, in collaboration with Tactile Robotics, has started a Beta trial procedure on CageView to figure out its adaptability for other research/scientific applications and condition monitoring. Tactile Robotics is happy to provide the required equipment for the trial and expand the application of the horizons of CageView for other smart and automated applications.

CageView, a groundbreaking innovation in a newly published scientific article, revolutionizing the domain of animal science experiments.

CageView in a newly published scientific article

It is our absolute pleasure that CageView has undergone an academic study for animal science experiments, and the results have been successfully published in a scientific paper. You can find the link to the paper here:
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CageView has been successfully delivered and adopted in the Department of Small Animal Imaging Lab at the University of Manitoba.

CageView has been successfully delivered and adopted in the Department of Small Animal Imaging Lab at the University of Manitoba

As the remote work and operation control is becoming more popular in industries and research activities, Tactile Robotics is bringing the future of animal science research to the forefront. The importance of remote operations has become even more obvious when the recent Covid-19 pandemic caused several activities to be stopped due to public health safety.

One of the ongoing research activities in the Small Animal and Materials Imaging Core Facility, Central Animal Care Services at Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, is based on tight food control and condition monitoring of mice before conducting the imaging process. This has established a joint research and development activity between the University of Manitoba and Tactile Robotics and led to the development of CageView Technology.

We are honoured to announce that CageView has finished the development process and is now adopted as standard equipment which is being used for food control and condition monitoring at Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba.

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