While birth simulators can very accurately recreate baby delivery, the impregnation process is a little less realistic. See more robot pictures. Childbirth is serious business.

What does a labor simulator do?

A birth simulator is an automated high-tech lifelike patient manikin that mimics a woman going through labor and delivery used in healthcare simulation. These complex manikins are also known as a labor simulators, childbirth simulators or birthing simulators.

What machine do they use to simulate labor pains?

What exactly is the contraption? It's a standard transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) machine, which features a small, battery-operated device with leads connected to sticky pads called electrodes.