Three researchers left Elon Musk's AI company to launch a start-up

Not content to simply transform the worlds of energy, transportation, and space exploration, in 2015, Elon Musk founded OpenAI, a San Fransisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) research company. The non-profits' goal is to further the technology in ways that will benefit humanity as a whole, and over the past two years, they've pushed AI into new territory. Recently, several researchers from OpenAI stepped away from the company to found Embodied Intelligence, a robotics start-up with a more singular focus: propel robotic automation to a higher level. Through their previous work, the founding members of Embodied Intelligence -- former OpenAI researchers Peter Abbeel, Peter Chen, and Rocky Duan and former Microsoft researcher Tianhao Zhang -- explored the potential of robots to mimic complex human action. Now, they are now confident they can use their past experience to improve the type of robots that are currently used in industry and even in the home.