Students at Dartmouth’s Thayer College of Engineering have recently developed the newest technology in concussion awareness, The Mobile Virtual Player (MVP). The MVP is a remote controlled robot that football players tackle to reduce their exposure to concussions and other head injuries. The developers of the MVP aimed to stimulate realistic game scenarios with the overall goal of making football a safer sport. Watch here:
As you can see, the MVP is a free-standing, remote controlled, padded dummy, which costs about $3,500 to manufacture. It is controlled by a remote on the sideline.