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1966: ROBOT HOUSEKEEPERS Coming Soon | Tomorrow's World | Past Predictions | BBC Archive

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Meet Able Mabel, the incredible robotic housekeeper, whose only function is to make your life more leisurely. She'll make your tea (milk, no sugar thanks), run your bath, make your bed, do the vacuuming, shine your shoes, dust your ornaments, cook your dinner and do the dishes afterwards, walk the dog, mind the baby, do the shopping, check the bill from your Paris dress designer (we've all got one), mix cocktails, answer the door, defend your property from burglars and even do that most soul-crushing chore of all, the ironing. Yours for just £500.
Too good to be true? Well in 1966 it is, but if Professor Thring at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Queen Mary College has his way, by 1976 there could be an Able Mabel in every home. He shows us some of the robotic prototypes he has been working on.
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@blissy1 2 года назад

Yes the inability of Daleks to climb stairs was a fatal design flaw, this guy nailed it

@SaintUdio 2 года назад

The daleks could levitate. And fly.

@brucecurrie6913 Год назад

@@SaintUdio Not in the original black and white episodes!!!!!!!!!

@nathancrossen2224 9 месяцев назад

@@SaintUdio Yeah, not originally though.

@stani6024 2 года назад

Almost 60 years later still waiting.

@113dmg9 2 года назад

How did she get the teapot on her head?

@dkdanis1340 2 года назад

Let me introduce to robot vacuum, robot temi, aido, lg robot, ubtech lynx, asus nenbo.

@dieseldragon6756 2 года назад

Remember that the development of the domestic robot hit an unexpected snag: Every home being connected to a global network that gives unknown folks in other countries root access to your robots terribly insecure implementation of BusyBox! 😉 Except in South Africa, where thousands of motorists rely on safe, reliable and dependable robots every single day! 😁 (If you don’t understand the latter: Look up the Afrikaan use of the word „Robot”… 😉)

@EgoAlters 2 года назад

As long as we have access to cheap/free unskilled labour, they is no need for such contraptions.

@cyberGEK Год назад

Video on France24 today about “chorebots,” coming soon? 🤷‍♀️🙂 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7dYV_qKpIgE.html

@johnnieantler58 2 года назад

Wow, I can’t wait until 1976

@torgokong388 2 года назад

I sure wish I had a robot to boil up a delicious pot of 7-Up for my dinner. Good job, Mabel!

@roberthorwat6747 Год назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂hilarious comment. I'll have a pot too!

@mattcorby 2 года назад

I too would enjoy being woken up by a skeletal robotic arm bashing me in the shoulder. A robot didn't make me say that or anything. Promise.

@alexanderleatherman Год назад

Studies may show a skeletal arm is the best thing to start the day with

@TotemoGaijin 5 месяцев назад

Remember, she has the grip strength of a gorilla.

@JasmineSurrealVideos 2 года назад

I'm wondering if Mabel can comb the professors unruly barnet as well? Can't believe how incredibly brilliant and funny this is, and Mabel should be in every home, she's a cross between a prototype Asimo, Robbie the Robot and Skeletor.

@113dmg9 2 года назад

Perhaps this is an ancestor of Sophia.

@richardmorton4762 Год назад

The professor would have zero credibility with a tidy branet

@baronvonlimbourgh1716 2 года назад

Gotta love that 60's optimism lol.

@Chuby123 2 года назад

Sadly social media has crushed that idea in it’s entirety

@Ken.- Год назад

I hear next year everyone in the world will be rich from crypto. How's that for optimism.

@TotemoGaijin 5 месяцев назад

Can you blame them? 3 years after this video we put people on the moon.

@nPoika 2 года назад

She looks like she cooks a mean glass of water.

@YHBW1001 Год назад

It’s Able Mabel! A washing machine with a toaster for a head!

@kendement071 2 года назад

Old mans very ambitious. Physics, motors and cluncky metals aint enough to make a working robot. He sounds like an indie dev who thinks he can make everything after learning how to code.

@kishascape 2 года назад

Basically every overindulgent fad loser today that drools over Tesla, non-existent AI, and "durrrrrr muh da futurez ish naooo"

@peterjansen7929 Год назад

… or a guy who'd just like a million to buy things to toy around with in his lab.

@Dextrovix-42 2 года назад

Fanciful thinking, whilst that chap at the end might have expected the physical robot achievable with 1 million of then-money, the AI behind it is still unrealised.

@svladcjelli4236 2 года назад

He thought they could get this done without bothering to catch up with computers that had 64kb of memory. Like 8-16k should be enough to perform all domestic labor perfectly.

@peterjansen7929 Год назад

@@svladcjelli4236 1960s thinking! How difficult can it be when women can do it? But even my grandmother, born in 1908 and having received only the most basic education, would have been able to tell this professor that the flimsy hands he is showing us will NOT lift a ton. She probably would have looked at the man, too, and suggested that by wanting a full decade for development he might not be around long enough to be asked where the million had gone.

@mboiko Год назад

I've had a robot vacuum clearing the hardwood floors of my 2nd-floor Condo for years and never really gave it much thought. Until I watched this video shot in 1966. We might not have Mabel, but plenty of friends have robots that clean their floors...and most don't give it a second thought. The fact that I live 30 min from Boston Dynamics might be a factor 8-)

@lundsweden 2 года назад

By 2005 we will have robot vacuum cleaners.

@MrMenefrego1 Год назад

'Able Mabel' reminds me of 'Rosey The Robot', the maid and housekeeper of Jetson family fame. "She is a model XB-500, an older model, but the only one U-Rent A Maid had that Jane could afford!" (Edit: That scientist was the epitome of the typical "mad scientist" type of that era)

@greasylimpet3323 Год назад

Haha - l was reminded of Rosie too! She was a lot more feminine than this one!

@lundsweden 2 года назад

Mabel the robot appears to have kitchen tongs for hands. Nice touches too... subtle box body, two TV aerials on the "head". I guess we could actually make something like this work now, but still would be very expensive!

@TotemoGaijin 5 месяцев назад

Movement and physical stuff maybe, but I think the AI aspect has a bit longer to go yet.

@Flying_Acehole 2 года назад

And now watch a video of Boston Dynamics.......

@mysterymayhem7020 2 месяца назад

Wild pipe dream was definitely a correct choice of words.

@andrewmayer4401 2 года назад

It's a damn shame that professor Thring never got his million pounds.

@niuzone Год назад

So basically share your house with a live-in office photocopier with a claw hand to wake 😅

@arsenal10141014 2 года назад

Mabel can only work in bungalow’s.

@alphonsocarioti512 Год назад

1976 looks promising.

@aestheticaltwat Год назад

They invented Wall-E.

@homg85 2 года назад

They were super optimistic!

@Odessia-ij5ys 2 года назад

Looks a robot washing machine

@milk_is_a_lie9331 2 года назад

First she'd scratch your eyes out and splash the hot drink on you lol.

@Buff_Cupcake 18 дней назад

Having just learned about them recently - That reference to the Thalidomide Children hit hard. Such a horrifying situation.

@big_dad9465 Год назад

2:50 BUDDY CMON

@johnn1199 Месяц назад

Yeeeeeaahh, going to assume it was on purpose, but ikr

@DavidPaulMorgan 2 года назад

strange - we now have lots of specific small 'robots' to do some of these physical tasks and a networked pocket computer for everything else. (tongue very firmly in cheek I think for this clip!)

@6clu Год назад

Also in the ad’s cut version: “Can’t please your partner? That’s okay, Mabel is fitted with all the state of the art tech to make sure you are all feeling the pleasure all year round!” Christ, it would have been better if they just made a machine which could just wash a plate 😭

@dannydougin3925 Год назад

No way.... Nope. I would never. This would have been clunky even by 1976 standards. Why doesn't Meredith Thring comb his hair down? Looks odd fluffed up. 5:35 that device would quickly wear marks on carpet or floors.

@HossEehoss 2 года назад

He needs to work on a robot barber. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@zitronenfalte 2 года назад

4:12 for example : it made his hair this morning....

@brunosco Год назад

😂😂😂

@ObiWanBillKenobi Год назад

In the 1930s, sci-fi was already predicting household robots. With the exception of Roombas and their clones, this has **still** not actually come to fruition ***90 years*** later!

@mboiko Год назад

ChatGPT...would like to have a word with you, a little late but they are coming.

@ObiWanBillKenobi Год назад

@@mboiko ChatGPT won’t fold my clothes or put my dishes in the dishwasher. But I guess we have lawn-mowing Roombas too. I’m talking about **robot** robots.

@mboiko Год назад

@@ObiWanBillKenobi I've had a robot vacuum clearing the hardwood floors of my 2nd-floor Condo for years and never really gave it much thought. Until I watched this video shot in 1966. We might not have Mabel, but plenty of friends have robots that clean their floors...and most don't give it a second thought. The fact that I live 30 min from Boston Dynamics might be a factor 9-)

@leonidaspetsakos9690 Год назад

Jesus, Mabel! It's 2023. Where the F are you! I still have to jump off the toilet to answer the door and my house is dirty. I'm still waiting for Mabel to clean it!

@vintagepipesnightmares 2 года назад

She will heat your tea with her head 😂

@matturban9103 Год назад

Does anyone remember the Quasar robots? They promised to do a lot too. Even when I was younger I didn't think the technology could handle all the hype. I have a robot. I built him myself. He's just a big toy made from plastic trash cans,powerwheels motors,wind shield wiper motors and wood. He reminds me a little of a 1960s toy,only lifesize.

@dmok42195 4 месяца назад

Mabel takes up so much space

@ilovegot7754 Год назад

How can you drink tea as soon as you wake up in bed 😂

@chromatophore881 2 года назад

5:08 - The good professor is a fan of Total recall.

@Ken.- Год назад

Do you have an unsightly stain on the carpet? No problem, Mabel will just roll over it so that you never have to see it again.

@ScottysHaze 8 месяцев назад

The way Mabel reached out with those transparent, skeletal fingers to tap the woman awake, then just sat there, zooming in on her with antennae and telescoping eyes whilst the woman just wanted to drink her morning tea; it all rather gave me the shivers. I found it most unnerving. I'm so glad Mabel never came to pass. When it comes to Mabel, I'll say, "no, thank you".

@flaggerify Год назад

A robot doing these chores would have to be humanoid.

@teslaandhumanity7383 2 года назад

Able Mabel wouldn’t fit through a British door

@onlyabusemejaegs 8 месяцев назад

I like that this scientist is con artist. He even made his hair silly so he looks like an aloof oxford genius.

@verribarry 18 дней назад

Dude didn't realize the hand is all you need.

@icequeen917 2 года назад

You mean I was supposed to have a robot doing my every whim when I was 4 years old?!? What happened? Lol!

@brunosco Год назад

It’s because he didn’t get his million £. 😛

@NightimeInDeepSpace 2 года назад

Wife 1.0 is obsolete tech

@xiangyusi3160 Год назад

My personal inholeful opinion: most potential comedian gonna born from hospital

@gary1961 Год назад

In 10 year's time we will have Able Mabel. In 20 year's time stand by for Robocop.

@onepartyroule 2 года назад

2022 and my tumble dryer hasnt ONCE answered my door; lazy git.

@DataWaveTaGo Год назад

*At **5:56** - I need that fire fighting thingie. I'm forever setting fire to combustible materials throughout my home. It's just what I do.*

@baylorsailor 2 года назад

Still waiting on my Able Mabel.

@113dmg9 2 года назад

I must have that washing machine robot! Where do I buy one?

@bruceplenderleith838 2 года назад

yeah, but does she steal? I can't help feeling alexa is shirking

@113dmg9 2 года назад

Are you kidding? Alexa is laughing her head off.

@CRAZY_KID13 Год назад

I still think that the first robot housekeeper is not going to be like this 😂

@Matty112uk 2 года назад

Meredith Wooldridge Thring, FREng, FIMechE, FIET, FInstP, FIChemE, FEI (17 December 1915 - 15 September 2006: I wonder what his thoughts and idea's were going into the 21st century?

@captur69 Год назад

Mable was the original terminator....she won't be back...

@FancyEqualsX 5 месяцев назад

tbh I'd own a Able Mable, their kinda just, adorable

@henriwolbrink 2 года назад

They surely fooled my mother when I was born.

@samaltima6998 6 месяцев назад

You will be able to buy a terrifying robot for 500 quid !

@xr6lad 2 года назад

I would say no to a quick robotic polish of my morning wood. Less complaining.

@streetfreakpatrol240 Год назад

Robots back then didn't have such tiny hands.

@SwingBandHeaven 2 года назад

How did Mable get up the stairs to take her the cup of tea in bed?

@113dmg9 2 года назад

It would be super cool to see Mabel take stuff out of the washing machine and dryer, put ironed clothes on hangers, and hang them in the closet with those wonderful nimble fingers that can do embroidery. And with her third hand, I bet she can pluck eyebrows, too!

@gary1961 Год назад

Hopefully, the lady lived in a bungalow.

@candyts-sj7zh 6 месяцев назад

2024… still waiting for Mable

@fidelcatsro6948 2 года назад

more than 50yrs on we dont even have a robot to feed my cats..

@Spielername 2 года назад

Satire at its finest...👌🤣👍

@LeslieDugger Год назад

"its safe to drink and drive"

@ianstrange5674 Год назад

The professor has very professorry hair. 🤣

@Veni_Vidi_Vortice 8 дней назад

Ten bob per day running cost? Stroll on, we're not made of money here!

@skeelo69 Год назад

Where's my robot house maid !!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

@northernsnow6982 Год назад

This guy was just looking for some funding, a little money in the pocket.

@streetfreakpatrol240 Год назад

Really kicking myself that I missed out on this investment.

@halfbakedproductions7887 Год назад

I think Mock The Week said it best that this show was more like "Tomorrow's Horse 💩" than Tomorrow's World. I love it how a supposed 1970s robot has 1960s sci-fi styling and can't actually speak.

@leroyaboytes9360 Год назад

Oh God!😂🎉 Lol! Where is Boston Dynamics where you need them?

@samuelsm.c.8733 Год назад

4:20👌🏻 belle avant garde disegno lunnetes🤓

@rosemeri68 6 месяцев назад

Maybe Mabel could do something about the professor's hair.....

@thejacal2704 2 года назад

Is there room for a fleshlight?

@yaosio Год назад

YOU WILL SLEEP NOW CHILD! ENTERING SLEEP MODE! 🤖

@thejacal2704 2 года назад

Petril !

@onlypendants 2 года назад

It seems they didn't get the million so we didn't get the freakin robot. Curses to the planners and financiers. 🤪

@Venti1388 6 месяцев назад

Well he got one thing right - the USA was ahead with computing.

@harryjones5260 11 месяцев назад

funny how the estimate comes in at a nice round one million pounds, and he'll see you in ten years......

@ttintagel 2 года назад

And yet Daleks couldn't go upstairs until 2005!

@TotemoGaijin 5 месяцев назад

No wonder they lost to a man with a screwdriver.

@justinklenk Год назад

This is its own self-contained eerie Twilight Zone episode.

@TheRattyBiker Год назад

If robots have to make that much noise I can't see them taking off.

@Steve211Ucdhihifvshi 2 года назад

What the hell happened. We should have this by now.

@Grim2 2 года назад

Well, evidently they didn't get million pounds that they needed.

@kye262 2 года назад

@@Grim2 was about to say that 😂

@mikitz 2 года назад

Some people have bought Alexa, so...

@brunosco Год назад

Well I’M HERE! It’s me! I was born in 1976 and… 🤖 I aM A rrrObOt!

@Ryzynsun01 3 месяца назад

Three laws safe!

@kiethblack3870 Год назад

The future by the time 1976 arrives? They could have at least made this episode in colour -- heh heh.

@r4zi3lgintoro65 2 года назад

ah, the 60s drugs...

@MadTimmy 2 года назад

It got uncomfortable real quick when he started throwing around the word “slave.” 😂

@dieseldragon6756 2 года назад

1998: Japan developed several robots with numerous practical abilities. 🇯🇵🤖👍🏽 2022: The UK is still *nowhere near* developing anything close to a useful domestic robot. Given the safety record of British made fire extinguishers, this is probably just as well… 🇬🇧🧯🔥😉 And I recently returned from a trip to South Africa, where robots are extremely common. So common in fact that „Take this road, turn right at the third robot” was common navigational advice! 🇿🇦🚥🤣

@oblux 2 года назад

There's Mabel putting a bottle of Tizer on the boil

@MOUNTAIN-098 Год назад

This looks better then any of the crap we have today.

@MegaBlobbs 11 месяцев назад

4:39 🤣😂

@paul64774 Год назад

It’ll never catch on.

@kerplunk10788 Год назад

Lol this is great!!!

@wheelblack35 2 года назад

Boy did they get that wrong

@chrisellis1232 Год назад

Look out a terminator 😲😉

@NoosaHeads 2 года назад

Current likely development cost - $10-100 trillion. Anticipated time - another 56 years.

@kimhaines7449 6 месяцев назад

Boy were they wrong.

@stranostrani9212 4 месяца назад

but look at how much progress in 58 years, look at Tesla Optimus or atlas of Boston Dynamics, one time for sure these kind of robots will come

@Nepbor 2 года назад

In this 2022, I still waiting one robot that serve my breakfrast near to my beed, ok, I still other 40 years more.

@TireSpare Год назад

Please do show us more about what we expected the future in 2050s. Is every futuristic stuff shown in Hollywood movies actually ones already fully developed and about to get commercialized ..................... yey