The peanut-shaped robot pillow that could cure insomnia

The latest insomnia cure comes in the form of a robot who you can curl up with to help you sleep through the night. Dubbed Somnox, the peanut-shaped pillow measures your rate of breathing and then creates its own steady breathing rhythm in response. Your body automatically picks up this breathing rhythm, helping you relax and drift off into a peaceful night's sleep. Somnox is the brainwave of a group of robotics and engineering students from Delft University of Technology. The device is still in the prototype phase, but the entrepreneurial engineers behind its creation hope to obtain enough funding to take it to market.