Thats the METI Human Patient Simulator, a robot that breathes, urinates, and blinks with uncanny realism.
The high-tech robotic mannequin simulates a wide variety of battle wounds and injuries and is currently used in the Navy Trauma Training Center to train doctors and nurses in combat zones.
bean
Heh. I saw a show about military medics that talked about this thing, but they neglected to mention the urinating. Thankfully.
Thespian24601
“Urinates with uncanny realism.”
To me, I just don’t want a robot to be doing that; not sure why.
empty-minded
The thing is that no matter how good the robot is at creating human functions, you know it’s still a robot. So even if you get the screaming, writhing, blood spurting and (above all, the smell) what you’re missing is the knowledge that it’s a real person.
Now don’t get me wrong, practice is great. In a ‘real’ crisis, the practice definitely helps you to know what you’re doing. But in the real world, it’s never the same as in the simulation lab.
Geekazoid
That’s true empty-minded but I think the Army and military does a great job of training its combat medics, the men and women whose military speciality is as a medic on the battlefield. I’ve seen some of its training methods and it is intense. While I am sure the first time is always a shock, their training seems to kick in despite the blood and gore.
Jamie
Queens University of Charlotte’s nursing school has a few of these, too.
Ali S.
Not as creepy as the Japanese Dentist robot that would blink and having this dead eye stare…O_O
Ryan Cousineau
The college where I work has a Nursing program, and they also have a few of these. They’re quite expensive, but they’re a little bit uncanny. They’ll just lie there, breathing, and blinking…
daggerphish
what happens when you mistake the human for a robot?
where can i buy one anyway?
aerio
With the goofy facial expression you almost expect the nose to be a red light bulb ala the game Operation.
Rosi1
This was on the news yesterday and my mum wouldn’t believe her boyfriend when he told her about it. She thought it was an April Fools, so I had to get the page up on wired (and even then she didn’t believe me straight away…)
munky
Given that much future ‘war-fighting’ will be outsorced to cybernetic sphere (according to the Pentagon, eyes ever feverishly aglow with the next generation methods of turning the Bad Guys Du Jour into hamburger), perhaps these victim mannequins should be offering up next-gen war-wounds – RSI, carpal tunnel syndrome, und so weite
Kat
My University is getting a new nursing department and we are getting 3 of those robots. One man, one baby, and one pregnant woman. I’m curious to see what the pregnant woman looks like.
su.wei
what a great idea. my doctor was telling me that today, most nurses learn how to give stitches and such on video.
linabeena
Wow, that’s really cool. Just a shame that we have wars and wounded soldiers and casualties in the first place 
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