{"id":35879,"date":"2026-05-07T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=35879"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T13:40:08","slug":"ces-2026-xivix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ces-2026-xivix\/","title":{"rendered":"CES 2026: XiViX Dentist-Supervised Robotic Tooth Preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allison interviews Pierre Chelala, Founder and CEO of XiViX, about their robotic dentistry system designed to complete procedures like dental crowns in a single visit. The approach combines 3D scanning and CBCT imaging with AI planning to guide a robot that prepares the tooth under a dentist&#8217;s supervision.<\/p>\n<p>Because the crown is pre-manufactured, the robot can precisely shape the tooth to match it, enabling highly accurate placement with consistent, repeatable results. The system operates within very tight tolerances, improving fit compared to traditional manual methods.<\/p>\n<p>Safety is addressed through sensors and real-time motion tracking, allowing the robot to adjust if the patient moves. A dentist remains in control and can pause or intervene at any time.<\/p>\n<p>The process is significantly faster, with tooth preparation taking about six minutes. XiViX is in a mid-development stage, holding U.S. patents and seeking funding and certification to bring the technology to market.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xivix.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.xivix.io\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1066\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xRf0w_1TYN0\" title=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Using a Screen Reader? <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xRf0w_1TYN0\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Transcript of Interview<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> We also needed to go to the Belgian booth, or Belgian section, the Belgian pavilion, I think it&#8217;s called, at the Venetian. Yes. And I&#8217;m here with Pierre Chelala. We had to go to Belgium for Bart and for Knightwise and all the other Belgian listeners. Anyway, we know that everybody loves going to the dentist, and we know that having a crown put in is probably the most fun you could have at the dentist. But this company called XiViX is hoping to make this easier with robotics. Let&#8217;s have a talk about what you&#8217;re going to do here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre:<\/strong> Thank you for interviewing me. This is my pleasure to announce that we are now doing single-visit dentistry with high precision. We are digitizing the patient in a single visit with IOS intra-oral scanning and CBCT. We are fusing this data, planning with AI, and using robotic execution supervised by the dentist. We are pre-manufacturing the restoration in advance, and the robot will execute the procedure in a fully automated way under dentist supervision, with the crown placed in a single visit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve only had one of these done, and it was surprising to me. Basically, they grind the outside of your tooth off, then manually the dentist does it, and then they take the crown and stick it back on the top. But you&#8217;re going to have a robot in my mouth doing that grinding-down part. That sounds crazy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre:<\/strong> Yes. It&#8217;s safe for the patient, and it&#8217;s safe for the dentist. It&#8217;s planned, and the trajectory of the robot knows exactly and precisely where to go. Even if you move, it&#8217;s okay. It&#8217;s in six axes. We follow you, we scan with 30-micron movements, and the robot will compensate for all your movements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Not cut my tongue off or anything.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre:<\/strong> No, no. It&#8217;s safe. We have all the sensors necessary to make it safe for the patient and for the dentist. You have predictable results and predictable outcomes, and you have your restoration pre-made in advance with high precision, with a 50-micron gap fit. That means when the crown is pre-manufactured and placed in the same visit, it&#8217;s placed with very high accuracy on the margins. That is ideal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Perfectly replicating the original tooth. Exactly. So, you&#8217;ve got a quick clip here of a fake mouth, but we&#8217;re going to see the robot going around doing the grinding, and the mouth is actually going to be moving because the patient is moving, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre:<\/strong> We can track that, and we have two patents in the States. I&#8217;m very proud of that. The whole workflow is patented in the US, and now we are going through certification. We are here to raise funds and continue our research journey.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Research and development. Can we see this work here?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre:<\/strong> Yes. It&#8217;s really quick here. We can see the robot grinding away on the tooth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Let&#8217;s see, we&#8217;re going to hit play here. The robot&#8217;s going around, and then the mouth is going to actually move. Yes, you see the movements. The patient just moved, and the robot just keeps going.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre:<\/strong> Yeah, look, this is on a phantom head, and it&#8217;s real-time dynamic compensation. Within six minutes, we prepare a tooth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Six minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre:<\/strong> Six minutes, and high precision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> That is a lot faster than my dentist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre:<\/strong> It will all be below 100. This is revolutionary because the preparation is made precisely, at scale, for every patient, and it&#8217;s repeatable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> I think I&#8217;m just getting the idea because you&#8217;ve already created the crown separately. You know exactly what the inside of that cap has to be, so you know exactly how to grind it, and the two are going to fit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre:<\/strong> Exactly. This is why the intervention of the dentist is not necessary, because we are asking the robot to be extremely precise to reproduce this preparation so the crown can perfectly fit on the margins, in the contact points, and the occlusion. Everything is well done.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> I have to say my favorite part is six minutes. That&#8217;s the part I like. But if I have to swallow or something like that, how do I tell the robot I need to swallow?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre:<\/strong> You don&#8217;t have to tell the robot. This is why the robotic execution is supervised by a dentist. As he&#8217;s working in your mouth manually, he would do the same. He has the pedal, he can stop the robot, and then retrieve the contra-angle. So it&#8217;s the same procedure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Okay, so that makes me feel a little bit better. If people wanted to get involved with you and maybe help fund you, where would they go?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre:<\/strong> They go to xivix.io.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> And how do you spell that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre:<\/strong> X-I-V-I-X dot I-O.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Allison:<\/strong> Very good. Thank you very much for your time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pierre:<\/strong> Thanks. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allison interviews Pierre Chelala, Founder and CEO of XiViX, about their robotic dentistry system designed to complete procedures like dental crowns in a single visit. The approach combines 3D scanning and CBCT imaging with AI planning to guide a robot that prepares the tooth under a dentist&#8217;s supervision. 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