See why tech companies are paying people to do chores

April 17, 2026

a robotic hand touching a human hand

(Washington Post) – Silicon Valley’s next great leap may be built on videos of people folding laundry.

Start-ups and entrepreneurs including Tesla CEO Elon Musk are trying to make robots smart enough to help with chores around the home. But adapting artificial intelligence to new tasks requires example data, like the online text and photos that enabled chatbots to start generating high-quality documents and images. (Read More)