Able Mabel: The Worst "Robot" Ever 

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We have realized that it's more efficient to just turn the vacuum into a robot

3:31 I like how instead of playing an alarm clock noise, or music, it just fucking punches you awake like you're late for school or something.

Abel Mabel analyzes market trends, undergoes a positive feedback loop. You come home to find all your savings gone and your house stuffed to the brim with CORN.

I always liked these old concepts because the overall idea does exist, at least to an extent. Like there’s no massive robot, it’s not bringing me coffee or cooking my breakfast, but my roomba keeps my floor relatively clean daily, I can sync my coffee machine to brew at a set time, my lights can be controlled by my phone and set to turn off I’m in not in the room anymore, I can answer the door through my phone and I can even control some of it on my watch. But none of it seems interesting to us, it’s still kinda “gimmicky” right now. Even though the majority of people have some aspects of it and use them daily, it still feels like it’s an extra step vs making things easier.

I love the retrofuturism videos, but thanks to this now I have a crippling fear of being suddenly woken up by a fridge with creepy plastic hands and a twin MG turret for a head.

I think robot maids are kind of a "if all you have is a hammer" case. We will automate all our tasks one day, but we in the past mistook it for a robo maid because we aren't that creative and it's easier to think of a catch all solutions instead of individual ones

you can tell this was from a different era because if it was made a few years later, some of these scenes would be depicted as extremely ominous

For context, the first robot to use the sigma star technique in AI pathfinding, Shakey, was only made in the 1970's.

Able Mable having a burner for brewing tea is the modern equivalent of refrigerators today having computers

textiles are actually the origin of computing. it's kind of appropriate to have a robot with a "computer understanding of textiles." it ain't the molecular structure, it's the patterning. it doesn't translate well to the household level, but modern automated manufacturing owes everything to the loom.

I have always found it funny how especially in the early days of computing, that a lot of people seemed to think that robots were always right around the corner. Like the idea that AI or even just general problems like image recognition would be trivial. Not to mention the mere notion that computing technology would be that small to begin with in that timeframe lol. And it's like not just because they're completely ignorant of technology, I mean this guy and many other people of the time were clearly very smart, it's just that computers have always been an interesting point of misunderstanding for so long

Ohoho. How quaint. Here I am watching this video on a palm-sized supercomputer, and I still don't have a robot.

7:55 "Yeah lets put the boiling water on the part of this thing that telescopes and spins around frequently"

If my robot housemaid doesn't look like an anime robot housemaid then I don't even want a robot housemaid.

"Let her command her own slave, at a touch of a button !" Damn, to be in the 1950's!

I love seeing glimpses of the mindset that people in the 20th century had concerning the future and technology.

Helper: Bee bee beep. Boop.

7:07 "LET HER COMMAND HER OWN SLAVE" well goddamn, 1966, let Detroit: Become Human eat its fuckin synthetic heart out, why don't you

Did they just admit wives back then were seen as "domestic slaves"? Wtf

*Able Mable* might now have been the robot we needed, or deserved… And I suppose that’s why we never did in the first place, but at least we know that *Able Mable* will forever exist in our hearts, and minds… especially in those of paranoid schizophrenics. I don’t really have a point I’m just disappointed that I never got the chance to own my personal “robot slave.”

The perspective of they thought to just design better appliances because that's what they knew makes me wonder what similar tunnel visions we have now.

I need a thousand of these worst robots videos like yesterday. This is genuinely awesome funny and interesting. I could only imagine being a kid in 66 seeing this presentation and being blown away. This thing in a way probably helped the development of tech more than we know just from inspiration. Ozzy Osbourne was inspired by the Beatles. No Beatles no Ozzy no black Sabbath no Metallica no Slipknot and so on. By proxy one could argue the creation of heavy metal started with the Beatles but was created by sabbath.

i absolutely love channels like these that make deep dives on... Literally anything, lol. They take so much effort! I appreciate your content and what you're making! 💯

13:35 _"This idea that technology exists to make life easier"_ Haha. Those silly 60's people and their crazy ideas.

8:13 Because this is the BBC and by extension, a UK program. Of course the robot can make Tea, that's a British thing to ask for. Unless I'm wrong, British Tanks come equipped with Tea making equipment.

As a professional grocer who isn’t too attached to his job, I’d probably mess with Mabel if it ever came into my store

I mean, one could make the argument that we do have a form of mechanical housemaid in the form of virtual assistant like alexa, Google home, etcetera. Can the clean the house and make you dinner, absolutely not, but you can set up grocery list look up information while you're cooking, you can even order groceries through these things. Virtual assistants are essentially digital secretaries in the house, which is at least a step in the right direction

"Free your wife from domestic slavery" sounds sort of based until you get to "Let her control her own slave"

Robotic looking robot maid: i sleep Anime girl looking robot maid: レアル　シット

I’m hoping this becomes a regular series.

I don’t know why but old robots are so uncanny to me. I remember getting freaked out by Merkin when I was little Edit: Merkin the ROBOT😭😭😭

I think until robots do dishes -- not a specific "robot-compatible" subclass of dishes, but all of them, better than people do them -- we can say that general-purpose robotics and AI have not really reached any sort of monumental generality. That stated I do think something like Mabel will happen, just probably not until I'm old enough to be really, really lucky to be living in the era where it does. Kind of hoping they don't look like that but it might be cute if they did. So, in summation, I, for one, welcome our new robotic domestic servants, but dread to think what will happen if some adversary hacks that thing.

I find the most interesting part of "future" predictions from the past, is always the bias of the era/person. They can never predict how things will change, instead they always seem to think everything will be the same, just futuristic.

Despite how impractical her design is, Able Mabel has such a retro charm to her that I can't help but love it.

The Communist Ton killed me.

All valid criticism given the presentation, but remember also that the basics of computer programming date back to the 1600s (where Leibniz pioneered what would eventually become the 1s and 0s of Boolean algebra, which is the basis of all of programming). Furthermore, true polymaths are rare, so what you often get is an expert in the field of e.g. mechanical engineering giving an example of how a machine can do X thing, so that someone skilled in computation can figure out how to integrate the function into a program. And then further iterations of engineers and scientists to figure out the architecture, electricians, masons and whatnot to build the production facilities, and then marketing and logistics people to sell the damn thing. Point being that not everyone can be a DaVinci, and engineering is basically throwing shit at the wall until something sticks, sometimes for hundreds of years.

I know people remember the movie Short Circuit as their childhood reference, but for me the T800 will always be my go-to robot reference. He's more human than most humans and that's the catch.

Hope Tyler also makes a video on the first attempt for a real exoskeleton, Hardiman.

Man I really want a robot to wake me up and give me tea just how I like it.

A robot doing my shopping for me ? Why that can never happen in America. It would be turned into scrap metal on it's first trip. RIP Hitchiking Bot.

I always loved your little tech history videos. I remember you were disappointed in how the jet engine car did but that was one of my favorites.

This serie fuels me with glee. Keep it doing.

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i love that after waking you up, her eyes shoot out threateningly. GOOD MORNING HUMAN Seriously though, i'm bummed we never really got the robot house maid. It's not even that impossible.

7:43 Of course there's a big focus on tea. This was made by the British.

I’m single right now. Maybe its because I keep wandering around shouting, “I MUST ACQUIRE A DOMESTIC SLAVE!”

Looking forward to more videos in this series.

Yessss I love these kinds of videos

Machines exist that will brew tea for a preset time. Let you schedule it, and put a few valves on it and a milk reservoir, you could literally have that.

33s? Last time I was this fast I got cocky about how much I can dilly dally before going to the busstop

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night hearing your robot maid cleaning your kitchen in pitch black darkness. Something about having a robot in my house is unsettling

I didnt know i needed a Able Mabel documentary in my life, but apparently, I did.

I, too, want a robot maid. Specifically one that looks/sounds like Dorothy from Big O. Don't judge me.

"Domestic Slavery" geez 1966.

4:50 weren't the first computers made of looms or something? Maybe im thinking of the wanted movie

7:40 she even looks like shes constantly smoking

7:09 Someone got fucking fired for that line, SOMEONE had to have been holy fucking shit during the era of Civil Rights?

Man I love these videos LOL

5:21 The American can not comprehend being within walking distance of the store.

Hot take: Robot maids in the home won't be popular until we have sex bots that can clean for you.

£500 in 1966 = £9,379 in 2023

Using Costa Rica's Anthem for the ad was the chef kiss. Loved the human size boxy body of Mabel. That cocktail scene seem to be a multitask function by design.

Vacuume: Roomba. Dishes: Dishwasher. Washing: Washing machine. Art: Printer. Most of this shit has been available since the 90s

My washing machine is on the loose

Greetings form the space year 2023! We have no flying cars, no household robots but we have Social Media! Just a update form the space year of 2023...

10:10 Great information! We can avert the robot apocalypse with stairs!!!

I've seen some really cool videos of fancy walking robots that incorporate much more complex balance and joints and can handle stairs and getting pushed. They were super impressive to me, after having always seen robots like this, and make me feel like the mechanical tech really does matter too. Won't do you any good without the computer though--pretty sure that fancy programming was involved in making the balance work.

3:32 imagine that hand gently caressing your face as you wake up at 3 in the morning

I hate having to get out of bed at night to piss

What was the last song played in this video? We played it in jazzband

When starting to talk about how robots are to go up stairs, at 10:16 the video cuts to a walking robot with a Dalek in the background. But Daleks could just levitate when confronted with stairs, and in fact you see this one start to do that...

Whenever I see a youtuber do a sponsorship for Warthunder I feel big brained and ahead of the curve for already knowing about and playing it, a feeling which is immediately killed when I realize how much happier I would be without Warthunder.

do more robot videos this was great

3:55 why’s it gotta just be the scary floating head man from spy kids 3D

I definitely got the impression the Mable part was a light parody, given some of the voiceover lines, that they came up with after the fact to add some interest to the rather dry interview with Mister Mechanical Hands.

Huskie: “I’ve given up hope on robotic automated domestic assistance” Roomba: “Well fine, I guess I’ll just go cry in the corner then”

We have the Roomba. Not as cute as Mabel and less threatening to humankind.

Flying vehicles that the general population uses in place of automobiles and pilots themselves? Not going to happen. That has all of the safety concerns of the public driving automobiles, made airborne. Self flying taxis? Definitely a possibility if allowed. Humanoid robots that can clean your house? Definitely a possibility in the near future. The robotics are already there and the AI needed to do it is rapidly growing in capabilities. It will be a matter of if society is comfortable with humanoids robots in public and/or in their homes.

8:07 I love the *eye’s* 👀 She can see right out the window :D

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Robot to vacuuum? We have that Robot to do the dishes? Literally invented in the 1940s.

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The "analyse market trends" bit could be done today by software that scrapes the supermarket websites and assembles a history of prices, then when you're following your list off your phone, it could point out that X product that you put on the list, but which keeps well, is unusually cheap, so you should buy extra while the price is down.

Not gonna lie, when I got the video notification and skimmed the title, I was kind of hoping for a robotic blue hedgehog that would make clothes

I’ve been using the Waymo app a lot recently, and I’ve got to say it’s been really fun. I live in Phoenix and there’s Waymo cars driving all around so the wait is like 3 minutes tops. I don’t like how often the car speaks tho…….

You can literally get groceries delivered by a robot. My family did it when I was in high school.

Cant happen anytime soon. Either, its a crap robot and no one will want it or its too great and uncle Jimmy will sleep with it. 😢😂

We are never going to have humanoid servants.

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10:44 Can't believe whimky is dead :(

Bro why was the anthem of Costa Rica (country without an army) playing in the background of the Wat Thunder ad?💀💀💀💀 keep your blood thirsty machines to your American bloody hands

3:41 ‘Waaaalllleeeee’

My dad went to Uni in the 70s and their computers required punch cards so this is definitely a fantasy lol

14:53 Why is the War Thunder background theme the national anthem of Costa Rica?

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Great video.

10:20 we get the CLOPPING>????

Doesn't "robot" literally translate into "slave"? Or did I hallucinate again? 😬😄

bro you can literally get a decent robot vacuum since at LEAST 10 years ago