The perfect help for dieting

Loosing weight and exercising is easier if you receive a positive reinforcement from a personal trainer. “Autom”, a polite robot that measures 40 centimetres, has been programmed to control its owners’ eating habits  and  to encourage them to have a healthy lifestyle.

Its inventors say that the mechanism gives to its customer all the information to follow the diet, it gives good advice and talks with its owner permanently about the need to eat healthy and practice sports, keeping him motivated all the time to continue with the healthy plan. It has a touch screen on its torso, there, its owners introduce daily data about the consumption of calories and the time spent training, it also  receives accurate information about the progress of the muscle development and the calories burned.

“Autom” is a female robot, it can recognize its owners for their face and control all their movements; so they won´t be able to have wrongdoings because it will surelly discover them eating what they shouldn’t. Autom has been developed by Cory Kidd, an expert specialized in the interaction between humans and robots. When he presented his creation in 2010, he explained that, in his opinion, only a few minutes with the robot could help the people to develop a kind of relationship that would impact and change all his life.

Now this robot is available through “Intutuye Automata” company established by Kidd, it costs 670 dollars just for the device, and we have to add 80 dollars per month for the payment of the personal service. It could be that the cost of the robotic personal trainer’s “work” motivate more than a user to follow its recomendation.