Science news articles about 'mannequin'

... to someone 'lost' in the outback. The outback is near Kingaroy airport in Queensland and the person is a mannequin, but the unmanned airborne vehicles (UAV) are real. It's all part of the 2008 UAV ...

... in the large explosions depending on whether they were on the front, back, or side of the mannequin relative to the explosion and whether they were covered by the helmet. An exposed sensor on the ...

... Karolinska Institutet (KI) have succeeded in making subjects perceive the bodies of mannequins and other people as their own. The findings are published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, ...

... Technology for its upcoming role as a different kind of protector. The NIST phantom serves as a mannequin in a standardized performance test for walk-through metal detectors or WTMDs such as those ...

... s an armless, legless, human-shaped torso, a mannequin that looks like he's wrapped in a mummy's ... , and like his NASA counterpart Fred, this mannequin is an intrepid space traveler. Now that he's spent ...

... care, are notoriously tough to teach. Engineers have now crafted a solution: a hybrid computer/mannequin that helps train students not only how to correctly perform a breast exam — but also how to ...

... of a medical emergency. Students were told that the patient – "SimMan," a computerized mannequin that can be programmed to have different medical problems – had altered mental status, nausea and ...