Elon Musk's AI firm wants to create robots to do your housework

Not satisfied with launching reusable rockets and designing electric supercars, Elon Musk is looking to create domestic robots to help people around the house. The billionaire entrepreneur won't be working through SpaceX or Tesla, but through another branch of his growing tech empire, collaborative artificial intelligence company Open AI. The firm, chaired by Musk and president of start-up incubator Y Combinator, Sam Altman, plans to use'off the shelf' robots rather than building them from scratch. Open AI, a non-profit founded by Elon Musk and president of start-up incubator Y Combinator, Sam Altman, plans to use'off the shelf' robots rather than building them from scratch, tweaking the robots to become mechanical maids (stock image) Open AI is a collaborative non-profit artificial intelligence company set up at the send of last year by Elon Musk and president of start-up incubator Y Combinator, Sam Altman. It received more than $1 billion in funding when it launched and sees robotics, chatbots and games as practical fields where it develop and can flex its AI muscle.