Lifeboat Foundation

Someday, AI robot assistants might be able to make you a coffee after watching you do it.

MIT CSAIL

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the University of Toronto are teaching AI to do household chore using a Sims inspired virtual simulator. While household chores are dreary, if not particularly complex for humans, for AI, making a cup of coffee or turning on the toaster is a bit more involved. Watching TV from the sofa, for instance, requires an AI to break the task down to specific steps, like: “walk to the TV,” “switch on the TV,” “walk to the sofa,” and “sit on the sofa.”