Technology is transforming both the fitness industry and how people exercise. Premium gyms and boutiques are quickly giving way to digitally-powered, connected workouts that offer people both sweat and convenience. The rise of fitness startups such as Peloton, Mirror, and Tonal has brought gyms into the home, but artificial intelligence (AI) has yet to unlock its full potential in the world of fitness.

This is why TwentyBN is using its advanced computer vision technology to help people get a personalized workout with real-time corrective feedback by observing their form through a camera. We believe it is time to leverage AI to offer people not only a connected workout, but a guided personal experience across devices, be it on a TV screen or a smartphone. Watch how our AI avatar, when paired with an understanding of individual exercises, delivers a safe, professional workout with real-time correctional feedback and motivation!

Here are three ways how Millie Fit integrates into your life to help you reach your goals safely while creating a healthier version of you!

1. Fitness Expertise at Your Convenience

We lead busy lives today with packed schedules. Be it at a bustling corporate office or a chaotic home, we have lots of responsibilities and little-to-no time to monitor our health, let alone take regular trips to the gym. Paying for a personal trainer is an unjustifiable expense that comes after daycare bills, food, and the family holiday we’ve been saving for.

That’s why Millie Fit is a cross-device application, capable of running on large TV screens down to your smartphone to give you a guided workout minus the expense of a personal trainer. All you need is a suitable space — living room, hotel, office, the park — and Millie engages you in a quick, efficient, and effective workout session that’s personalized to your fitness level and goals. With Millie Fit, we aim to democratize fitness so everyone can get healthier and happier wherever they are.

2. Real-Time Corrective Feedback

Being healthy also means being free of injury. It turns out that while we are becoming increasingly conscious of our health and wellness, fitness injuries are also rising. Research on high intensity interval training (HIIT) finds that from 2012–2016 versus 2007–2011, all types of injury increased by 144%. Most of the injuries involve knees, ankles, and shoulders due to a lack of supervision, poor form, and muscle overexertion. An Australian study on the causes of injuries at fitness facilities also indicates that overexertion, strenuous and unnatural movement causes over 36% of fitness injuries — the highest among the six common causes of injury.

We asked ourselves if we could turn Millie, our context-aware AI avatar, into an AI-powered fitness trainer to provide the daily supervision, corrective feedback, and progression monitoring that trainers use to ensure their clients are performing steadily and safely.

We can do this thanks to our globally distributed data platform that mobilizes our network of crowd-actors to perform any exercise that our users desire. We then train our AI model to understand what the exercise looks like, count repetitions for each workout and give the user real-time workout progression along with valuable information on how to improve their form to avoid unnecessary injuries.

3. Personalized, Connected Experience

Each of the Millie Fit workout routines has a warm up, a main set of exercises, and a cool-down, ensuring the user is properly activated for an intensive experience at the correct level. We are working on curating a range of workouts so that you can personalize your experience not only according to your specific fitness level but also based on the types of exercise and fitness goals you want to work on. You can even track your daily performance and measure long-term progress. Moreover, Millie Fit lets you stay connected with your friends via a workout leaderboard that builds a community focused on positive motivation to help stay focused and accountable.

Visual AI that help us achieve our life goals

Our foray into health and fitness is part of our long-term objective to teach AI common sense and build the next generation of virtual assistants that can see and be seen. Our aim is to demonstrate that it is possible to build a connection with an intelligent virtual avatar and use it to help you accomplish your personal goals in all aspects of your life.

To learn more about how visual AI assistants can help help you better accomplish your goals visit our website and check us out on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.