Mark Zuckerberg Is Building Himself a Robot Butler

Call Mark Zuckerberg a lot of names, but don’t call him broke. With a net worth of $35.7-billion, he can afford to do things you and I can’t do – such as, building a robot butler.

Remember watching The Jetsons when you were a kid, just hoping for the day when you could own a robot maid with a sarcastic attitude like Rosie? Well the waiting may be over. Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg announced on his Facebook page this week that he wants a robot butler. Zuckerberg said:

“My personal challenge for 2016 is to build a simple AI to run my home and help me with my work. You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man.”

What? No Rosie?

He went on to rub it in…I mean, to detail which tasks the slave robot will perform, starting with “teaching it to understand my voice to control everything in our home – music, lights, temperature and so on."

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One question: Can the robot make pizza?

If you had your own personal robot, what are the first things you’d teach it to do? Ummm, forget we asked.

Maybe the new robot will fall in love with Rosie...