Scientists have created a robot that's capable of shivering and sweating out for the first time. Thermetrics, a company based in the United States, and Arizona State University have developed ANDI, a "thermal mannequin." The first sweating robot in the world, ANDI produces heat, shivers, walks, and breathes.
According to Konrad Rykaczewski, an associate professor at Arizona State University's School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy “ANDI sweats and he generates heat, shivers, walks and breathes.”
The 'ANDI' robot was created to research how heat and other severe temperatures affect the human body. ANDI has been built to withstand a range of temperatures. It contains 35 independently regulated surfaces with pores similar to those found on the human body.
According to a report by the news organization Reuters, Konrad Rykaczewski “With thermal mannequin, we can actually simulate the conditions and see how fast that core temperature is increasing.”
“There’s a lot of great work out there for extreme heat, but there’s also a lot missing. We are trying to develop a very good understanding of how heat impacts the human body so we can quantitatively design things to address it,” Rykaczewski said in another report by The Independent.
Andi is the only outdoor-capable thermal mannequin in existence.
“You can't put humans in dangerous extreme heat situations and test what would happen. But there are situations we know of in the Valley where people are dying of heat and we still don’t fully understand what happened. ANDI can help us figure that out,” Jenni Vanos, Associate Professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University, said.
To further understand how excessive heat affects various age groups and body types, ASU researchers intend to experiment with the thermal mannequin in hot Phoenix areas using ANDI. “We can move different BMI models, different age characteristics, and different medical conditions [into ANDI],” Ankit Joshi, a research scientist at the ASU who is also the lead operator of ANDI, said.
“A diabetes patient has different thermal regulation from a healthy person. So we can account for all this modification with our customized models,” Joshi said.
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