Invercargill, New Zealand -- An Invercargill designer has made a lifelike lamb carcass from polyurethane with bones intact, reports the Southland Times.
Prototype and design company One.61 has devised the lamb carcasses to improve automated X-ray imaging and conveyor machines in meat plants.
The prototypes are being used to calibrate lamb X-ray machines, so that cuts from carcasses can be weighed uniformly in meat plants.
The 20 kg carcass - to imitate a one-year-old New Zealand lamb -- is mimics an organic body for X-ray purposes, and are similar to human phantoms used for processes such as radiography.
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