MIT Robot Helps You Lose Weight
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 15 of August , 2007 at 1:12 am
By Evan Ackerman
Autom is a “weight maintenance sociable robot” designed by the MIT Media Lab to help people lose weight (while also gathering information about how people react to robots that live in their homes). You interact with the robot via a touchpad, and it’s able to track your face and speak to you. My first reaction to this idea was something like, “how is a robot that doesn’t eat and can’t gain weight supposed to motivate me to stay healthy?” But in the video, the robot is ever so polite, and how could you refuse anything that it suggests while it looks at you with those big dreamy brown eyes? Check out the video and you’ll see what I mean.
[ MIT Media Lab Personal Robots Group ]
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Comment by John & Laura
Made Wednesday, 22 of August , 2007 at 4:46 pm
I think a lot of people would enjoy this. It would be even better if you could talk directly to it instead of using the touchpad.
Comment by lipodrener
Made Sunday, 20 of January , 2008 at 3:40 am
The desire to lose weight is not limited to your seats with passive screen monitor? Then the next step – to force themselves to do something for their own figures.
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