Noelle is a pregnant robot at John Hopkins University. She is a life-like, birth-giving simulation tool, being used to train medical students. With this robot high riks situations can be simulated and obviously it's better that mistakes are made on a robot than on a real human.

Susan Will, OB Patient nursery nurse, adds to this that actually the most important aspect to be learned from this robot is team communication. By filming an emergency birth and re-watch it on tape, the team learns a lot.