SurHUByx is the name of a mannequin unlike any other. Equipped with sensors, SurHUByx is made of materials that closely mimic the human chest. Its purpose: to transmit information about the danger posed by a ballistic impact or the severity of an explosion—displacements, deformations, pressures, accelerations—and thereby validate the performance of protective systems for the benefit of soldiers and police officers.

 Unveiled at Eurosatory, SurHUByx is the result of a collaboration between the Defense Innovation Agency, the Ministry of the Interior and Overseas Territories, and leading academic institutions pooling their expertise: the ICB laboratory at UTBM, the Hauts-de-France Polytechnic University, the ISL Franco-German Research Institute in Saint-Louis, and the CNRS.

Congratulations to Sebastien Roth, professor of mechanical engineering at UTBM, for his commitment to this project, as well as for proposing and co-supervising the first dissertation, written by Martin CHAUFER; a second dissertation is currently being written by Pierre Gardère.