manikin

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Because this is a test flight, no astronauts are on board this time - instead three manikins, covered in thousands of sensors, are making the journey.

From BBC

Sitting atop the rocket is the Orion spacecraft which, for this first mission, is uncrewed but is equipped with a 'manikin' which will register the impacts of the flight on the human body.

From BBC

Watching a simulated autopsy on a manikin representing a bear-mauling victim, Roach notices “two small divets along the spine,” she writes.

From Washington Post

Street protesters were replaced by toy cars or dolls, some led by cardboard cutouts or manikins dressed in outfits.

From Reuters

Each manikin followed a different trajectory, but “they all clustered on the same TRAP,” just as the algorithm predicted, Serra says.

From Scientific American