Elon Musk wants to build a robot that does your housework

Musk and some of the other leaders of the nonprofit artificial intelligence group Open AI jointly announced that they are "working to enable a physical robot ... to perform basic housework." "We believe that learning algorithms can eventually be made reliable enough to create a general-purpose robot," said in the blog post. It was signed by Musk as well as Sam Altman, the president of venture firm Y Combinator, and two staff members at Open AI. Musk is the CEO of both Tesla Motors (TSLA) and SpaceX. They hope to build a robot that can asked to perform a task by simply speaking to it.