A scary looking robot is being developed by the MIT Media Lab to aid people who would like to lose weight. It’s called the Weight Maintenance Social Robot. Eerie for me..

According to the report, the robot will serve in two ways a.) to “mirror” the person’s behavior allowing him or her to keep track of the improvements or lack of it and b.) to provide social support.

If your mom or your husband can’t get you into losing those pounds, I don’t think any bicentennial man can. What do you think?

Tags: robot, MIT, sociable robot, weight loss