With this AI-enabled personal trainer, you can redefine your approach to working out at home in complete ‘privacy’

One good thing that the ongoing pandemic has done for the human race is, it has made us more concerned about our health and lifestyle. No wonder then, a large population is exploring some form of home exercising to keep fit.  Gyms have moved to homes and people rely on online trainers and their live sessions for at-home fitness regimes.

RAEDA here presents a new approach in this form of at-home fitness experience with real-time feedback. It aims to support individuals through the regime, providing instructions about correct technique and form, crucial to every athlete. The orb-like RAEDA is designed to mimic the idea of a personal trainer at the fraction of the cost. Frankly, it’s not for everyone to afford a physical trainer in the gym, these guys/gals are super expensive to afford. The next best alternative then are the peers, but if you’re shy, asking for the correct form and techniques from others just goes out of the question. This is a perfect platform for something like the RAEDA to walk into our lives.

This equipment, inspired by the weights and other gym gear, comes paired to a base that has a concave design in between resembling the imprint left on the ground when a heavy object is dropped on it. This symbolic appeal gives RAEDA a weighted feel to it. The artificial intelligence (AI) enabled RAEDA, as a personal trainer, leads an individual through correct posture, technique and form, which are a must for strength training. This experience of a personal trainer guiding you remotely at the comfort of your home will help reduce injuries and allow people to workout more confidently and at their convenience (instead of the time slot of the physical trainer in the gym).

RAEDA basically uses 3D depth mapping tech to provide real-time coaching. The live remote learning/teaching allows people to workout better, while the AI sensors onboard allow the device to track the body for real-time feedback of posture and correct technique to use, so fatigue and injuries can be minimized. This is also the biggest advantage of RAEDA, which separates it from other liver trainers coaching remotely. They may show you the postures and techniques, but cannot guide in real-time if you’re doing something incorrectly that may lead to injury or fatigue.

This AI home personal trainer with its 12MP main camera and one-megapixel depth sensor captures the person’s movement in 3D during workout at home. The device connects with your smart TV providing real-time visual straight from RAEDA’s camera on it. The screen then functions as a mirror in a gym, but showing correct form and technique for the given exercise so you can adjust and avoid incorrect posture. When technology makes life easier at the convenience of our homes, we are concerned about our privacy. RAEDA addresses the concern with a physical turn-off function. Just hide the camera lens of the device in its base and your privacy is intact. To use, roll the ball-like camera over to rest on its flat back and you’re good to exercise appropriately.

Designer: Blake Parkinson and DCA

 

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Outsourcing solves a lot of problems nowadays, especially since it costs companies a lot less money than if they found a solution to their problems locally. In this context, why not oursource your fitness stats to a qualified trainer?

That is exactly what the developers of the GOQii fitness tracker are planning to do with their device. Unlike other wearable tech companies who sell their fitness trackers at a sometimes steep price, the manufacturers of GOQii are willing to offer this device for free to anyone interested. In a strategy similar to Amazon’s, this company doesn’t want to make money from its physical products, but from the services that go with it.

Gaming entrepreneur and GOQii founder Vishal Gondal demonstrated how the fitness tracker works using Swapnil, a personal trainer based in Mumbai, India. One morning, Swapnil asked Gondal how he slept, and the the answer didn’t quite characterize someone focusing on fitness: “Feeling tired. Should I get a Red Bull?” Swapnil suggested against that, while also recommending Gondal to try some natural carrot juice with a shot of ginger instead. Swapnil’s last question, “Did you get time for a run?” is nearly rhetorical, as the Indian personal trainer already knows that Gondal hasn’t taken too many steps that day.

Future users of the GOQii fitness tracker should rest assured, as their GPS data is not visible to the personal trainer, despite being collected by the device itself. That’d be something like stalking, and there are plenty of other methods out there to do that.

Gondal finally admits the truth: “I haven’t run so I haven’t replied to the message. This is playing in my mind that I have to reply. Ok, I’ll tell him now.” Using the GOQii app on his Windows Phone Nokia, Gondal replies to his personal trainer: “Yes. Running tomorrow for sure.”

The founder of the company is also very optimistic about where this fitness tracker and service is heading: “In the future we’re going to have a tsunami of personal data coming up. We’re creating a new breed of professionals whose job is to decipher human data and guide people.”

As said before, GOQii is looking to raise money from the service, rather than from the device, so it offers 6 months of daily personal training for $99 with each free device that they offer. The number of personal trainers will surely raise from the current 50, and hopefully, so will the number of subscribers.

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