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.
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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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what a great idea. my doctor was telling me that today, most nurses learn how to give stitches and such on video.
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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.
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What's next? Give it a brain and teach it to speak?
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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
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