Abstract: A monitoring and/or food/water/medicine control system and method of use of the systems provide that (i) an experimenter at the computer desktop sets the schedule for feeding/fasting (food or water or medicine) the animal according to their need, and the animal's access to food or water or medicine will be set accordingly.

Abstract: A dental procedure training system has one or more apprentice workstations that use data acquired from an instructor workstation. The instructor workstation has a dental tool and a sensory system to sense an operating characteristic(s) of the dental tool while the dental tool performs a dental procedure. The apprentice workstation has a training tool with a handle grip representative of the handle grip of the dental tool. The training tool may have a vibrotactile actuation system embedded in the training tool to generate vibrotactile feedback through the handle grip of the training tool and a processing unit to operate the vibrotactile actuation system according to the operating characteristic(s) sensed by the sensory system of the instructor workstation. Alternatively, the training tool may be operational to perform said dental procedure, in which the processing unit compares operating characteristics sensed by the apprentice workstation and by the instructor workstation.

Abstract: An automated dental articulator training system has one or more apprentice's workstations that use data acquired from an instructor's workstation. The instructor's workstation has a dental articulator including teeth, gingiva, a palate, and mechanism; a video streaming system; a set of actuators to drive the mechanism; a set of sensory systems to sense angular or linear velocity or displacement of the mechanism; a data storage unit; and a software showing statistical and graphical information of the system while a dental procedure is performed by an instructor or an apprentice. The apprentice's workstation articulator excludes the video streaming system, but is otherwise identical. The dental articulator training system includes a processing unit to operate the actuation system according to the values set by the instructor or each apprentice.