Re:In the home (Score 1)

Dr. Rodney Brooks, of the MIT AI lab, has spent a good chunk of his career developing machines that do the seemingly simple household tasks of walking around without walking into things, cleaning floors without missing spots, and even giving tours of the MIT lab. True AI can only be achieved once a lot of little things are taken care of, and the artificial machine is assembled from the little bits.

Seems to me that even the little things, then, are all part of AI research, since they may eventually lead to bigger and better things.