If you’ve watched an NFL game recently, you may have seen this NFL Network promo, which opens with a shot of a tackling dummy zipping across a practice field. It’s an odd sight at first, but player safety advocates are hailing it as the next big thing. The Mobile Virtual Player (MVP), which was first […]
Mobile Virtual Player (MVP) is a motorized and self-righting mobile tackling dummy, which was developed at Dartmouth College. Now it is making its NFL debut with the Pittsburgh Steelers. We covered the MVP last October, during Dartmouth’s eventual run towards a share of the 2015 Ivy League Title. Dartmouth and their head coach, Buddy Teevens, were ahead of the curve in […]
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 […]
