Just done with dentist appointment. Idle thought occurred to me that we haven’t really explored the idea of robotic teeth. Chewing up and manipulating/sending bits of the environment with a generalized cutting/grinding/shredding end effector is not a thing in robotics
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Know of any real robots with generalized smart mouth end-effectors?
Smart mouth would be a good name for such a robot
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A "mouth" as defined as a mass entry point? Not really. Gas tank inlet to an autonomous car is a mouth then.
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Hmm... whitespace! I'm doing next monday's session and am thinking of making it about a rough draft design for a mouth (including tongue like manipulator, cheek-like active chamber, and suction/blowing pneumatics... it's quite complex if you try to get all the functions
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Right, ok if you count mass inlet that is not useful to the robot then Abundant is an interesting example (RIP)
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What makes the mouth interesting is the efficient convergence of functions around a basic mass intake. Machine shop, chemical pre-processing, mining equipment, weapon, mass spectrograph, threat detector (bitter=poison), vacuum cleaner, blower, speaker/resonator, mass transport...

