Anyone who’s spent any time outside in Phoenix during the summer knows what it means to sweat. Sweating can be difficult, though, to replicate that during scientific research.
That’s where ANDI comes in. ANDI is a human-shaped thermal manikin that mimics the human body’s thermal regulation. That means ANDI sweats and shivers, for example.
And ANDI can go outside, which allows researchers to get a better sense of how we react to heat and cooling efforts in the real world…