Gymbot - Cool Personal Fitness Trainer

First, some facts from WHO:

• Worldwide obesity has more than doubled since 1980.
• In 2008, 1.5 billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight. Of these over 200 million men and nearly 300 million women were obese.
• 65% of the world's population live in countries where overweight and obesity kills more people than underweight.
• Nearly 43 million children under the age of five were overweight in 2010.
• Obesity is preventable

Overweight and obesity will be the world's no 1 problem if it is not treated and prevented. Due to this problem, Gymbot, a concept robot presented at the ICSR 2011 design award is used in order to help humans especially in obese people to have a healthy lifestyle. 

Max Battaglia, the designer of Gymbot, hope that this robot will coach the owner in term of exercise, eating habit and healthy lifestyle. It can use the sensor to analyze not only the owner's activity, but also his/her body composition so that it can give advice on how to get healthier. 

This concept robot is meant to motivate and encourage overweight people to live healthily and well, there's nothing scarier than a big, bulky scary humanoid telling you what to do or else he'll beat the crap out of you. According to the designer, this robot may exist in 2020 where there are great improvement in technology that make the robotics become more affordable. 

Hopefully with this robot around, problems associated with obese can be eliminated and people can spend more time on other problems.

Source: Here and here.