Intuitive Automata shows off new diet-coaching robot

Intuitive Automata has posted video of its Autom weight-loss coach robot. The company is an MIT Media Lab spinout making robots for the health care industry.

Intuitive Automata CEO Cory Kidd has turned up in MHT before, talking about the then-unnamed Autom and robotics in general. The company has since moved to Hong Kong. 

Kidd worked in the Media Lab’s Personal Robotics Group, also home to Nexi, the emotion-mimicking robot. Autom itself has slimmed down a bit since its Media Lab days — it’s also lost the molded plastic hair and added a mouth. After the jump, watch video of Kidd presenting an earlier version of the robot.

Via Joost Bonsen.

Posted by Brendan Lynch

Tags: Autom, Cory Kidd, Intuitive Automata, Joost Bonsen, MIT, MIT Media Lab, Personal Robotics Group

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