A YouTuber from Chile has built a bizarre robot that corrects his bad posture by hitting him on the head.

Ionel Pop decided to build "Tatequieto-bot" after noticing how bad his posture had become due to slouching

“The original plan was to make myself a robot that would make me go from slouching to the correct sitting position," said the inventor Ionel Pop.

detects my posture by using a series of infrared sensors on the back of the robot that measures the distance I am from the robot. “

“I used some wood and old plastics I had lying around, and a couple of components I had left. It uses computer vision and an infrared sensor to determine my posture and know if I'm sitting properly or not,” he added.

“I knew I was sitting badly but just having the evidence wouldn’t make me sit better so I added a wooden stick so it hits me on the head whenever I sit badly," he concluded.

This clip was filmed in the town of Copiapó on April 3.

I noticed that my posture is quite bad sometimes, that's why I wanted to build something to fix that and make a video for my YouTube Channel in the process.

“The original plan was to make myself a robot that would make me go from slouching to the correct sitting position.
It detects my posture by using a series of infrared sensors on the back of the robot that measures the distance I am from the robot. “

“I used some wood and old plastics I had laying around, and a couple of components I had left. It uses computer vision and an infrared sensor to determine my posture and know if I'm sitting properly or not.”

“Name of the robot: Tatequieto-bot. Tatequieto it's kind of a word play here in Chile. It's a contraction of the words "Quedate" which means stay and 10”

“I knew I was sitting badly but just having the evidence wouldn’t make me sit better so I added a wooden stick so it hits me on the head whenever I sit badly.”

“My posture is really bad, and I became pretty self conscious about it. I had a little bit of free time that week so I wanted to solve my problem using a robot. It sounded like a fun project to make.”