Elon Musk's artificial intelligence project wants to build a robot - Independent.ie

Building such a robot isn't just a way of getting rid of household chores, according to a blog entry posted by the nonprofit research group. It would also be a neat way of testing whether or not its work in artificial intelligence is progressing in the right way. There are already ways of creating a robot that can carry out specific tasks, the researchers note. The difference is that Musk's team hopes to create "learning algorithms" that would allow the creation to serve as a "general purpose" robot – meaning that it can be left around the home and be clever enough to work out what it needs to do to clean.