Studying Ways To Use Robots To Encourage People To Be Active

Although activity is a terribly inefficient way to control weight, here is one candidate for the task:

"Maja Mataric', the USC Viterbi School of Engineering professor and senior associate dean who directs the USC Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES), will lead an effort to evaluate robots as exercise coaches for adults of all ages, with a particular focus on the elderly..

The grant is one of nine, totaling $1.85 million, announced by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as part of the Foundation's Health Games Research national program, (sic) "

It is a waste of money, but that is the way of the inexorably stupid RWJF.