Tech startup Bryte has designed a robotic bed that can automatically adjust the temperature, customise support for different parts of the body and even rock a person to sleep.
The Bryte Bed is said to be the world's first to sense the body's weight distribution and temperature and adjust its settings throughout the night in response.
It is designed to create the small changes that might make a critical difference to whether a person falls asleep and stays asleep on any given night.
Bryte bed senses the body's weight distribution and temperature
In terms of temperature, Bryte's consulting sleep-scientist, Matt Walker, points to research that shows that dropping a person's core body-temperature by one to two degrees celsius during the first two cycles of sleep can increase their deep sleep by up to 40 per cent. With the Bryte Bed, it's possible that sleepers won't ever wake up with the need to grab an extra blanket or kick off their socks.
The bed controls their temperature through a thermoelectric cooling and heating system and adjusts support via up to 100 "active coils", arranged in eight zones for one person or 16 for two. Changes are said to happen noiselessly and subtly through pneumatics.
It uses a thermoelectric cooling system to control the temperature of the bed
Most of these changes are automatic ? the bed contains sensors that pick up on the current state of the body and environment. The data is processed by the bed's central processing unit and its comp...