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”… 😉)
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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-)
'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)
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!
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!
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?
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.
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!)
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 😭
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 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.
@@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-)
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".
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.
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! 🇿🇦🚥🤣
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!
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.
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
Dear people in 1976...... we the people in the future have run out of wives that can willingly preform the household duties that mabel does, without complaint and unworkable entitlement issues. They simply do not exist anymore. Could you please send us millions of orders for Mabel please?
Making tee and fill up a bathtub? Not really things I need a robot for. Vacuum cleaner, sure. That's what current specialized robots like the Rhumbas are for. But a general robot doing the normal easy mundane everyday things?
![BOWKYLION - วิงวอน (ex-change) [Official MV]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/cLdnZWDaO-w/mqdefault.jpg)
Almost 60 years later still waiting.
How did she get the teapot on her head?
Let me introduce to robot vacuum, robot temi, aido, lg robot, ubtech lynx, asus nenbo.
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”… 😉)
As long as we have access to cheap/free unskilled labour, they is no need for such contraptions.
Video on France24 today about “chorebots,” coming soon? 🤷♀️🙂
th-cam.com/video/7dYV_qKpIgE/w-d-xo.html
Yes the inability of Daleks to climb stairs was a fatal design flaw, this guy nailed it
The daleks could levitate. And fly.
@@SaintUdio Not in the original black and white episodes!!!!!!!!!
@@SaintUdio Yeah, not originally though.
Wow, I can’t wait until 1976
I sure wish I had a robot to boil up a delicious pot of 7-Up for my dinner. Good job, Mabel!
😂😂😂😂😂😂hilarious comment. I'll have a pot too!
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.
Studies may show a skeletal arm is the best thing to start the day with
Remember, she has the grip strength of a gorilla.
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.
Perhaps this is an ancestor of Sophia.
The professor would have zero credibility with a tidy branet
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
Basically every overindulgent fad loser today that drools over Tesla, non-existent AI, and "durrrrrr muh da futurez ish naooo"
… or a guy who'd just like a million to buy things to toy around with in his lab.
She looks like she cooks a mean glass of water.
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-)
It’s Able Mabel!
A washing machine with a toaster for a head!
Gotta love that 60's optimism lol.
Sadly social media has crushed that idea in it’s entirety
I hear next year everyone in the world will be rich from crypto. How's that for optimism.
Can you blame them? 3 years after this video we put people on the moon.
'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)
Haha - l was reminded of Rosie too! She was a lot more feminine than this one!
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!
Movement and physical stuff maybe, but I think the AI aspect has a bit longer to go yet.
By 2005 we will have robot vacuum cleaners.
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!
And now watch a video of Boston Dynamics.......
It's a damn shame that professor Thring never got his million pounds.
So basically share your house with a live-in office photocopier with a claw hand to wake 😅
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?
I must have that washing machine robot! Where do I buy one?
Looks a robot washing machine
Mabel can only work in bungalow’s.
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.
First she'd scratch your eyes out and splash the hot drink on you lol.
1976 looks promising.
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!)
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 😭
4:12 for example : it made his hair this morning....
😂😂😂
Wild pipe dream was definitely a correct choice of words.
How can you drink tea as soon as you wake up in bed 😂
You mean I was supposed to have a robot doing my every whim when I was 4 years old?!? What happened? Lol!
It’s because he didn’t get his million £. 😛
He needs to work on a robot barber.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
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!
ChatGPT...would like to have a word with you, a little late but they are coming.
@@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.
@@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-)
They invented Wall-E.
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".
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.
They were super optimistic!
2022 and my tumble dryer hasnt ONCE answered my door; lazy git.
yeah, but does she steal? I can't help feeling alexa is shirking
Are you kidding? Alexa is laughing her head off.
Having just learned about them recently - That reference to the Thalidomide Children hit hard. Such a horrifying situation.
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! 🇿🇦🚥🤣
She will heat your tea with her head 😂
How did Mable get up the stairs to take her the cup of tea in bed?
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!
Hopefully, the lady lived in a bungalow.
I still think that the first robot housekeeper is not going to be like this 😂
*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.*
5:08 - The good professor is a fan of Total recall.
A robot doing these chores would have to be humanoid.
Able Mabel wouldn’t fit through a British door
Still waiting on my Able Mabel.
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.
This guy was just looking for some funding, a little money in the pocket.
Really kicking myself that I missed out on this investment.
more than 50yrs on we dont even have a robot to feed my cats..
It seems they didn't get the million so we didn't get the freakin robot. Curses to the planners and financiers. 🤪
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.
In 10 year's time we will have Able Mabel. In 20 year's time stand by for Robocop.
I like that this scientist is con artist. He even made his hair silly so he looks like an aloof oxford genius.
They surely fooled my mother when I was born.
Dude didn't realize the hand is all you need.
Wife 1.0 is obsolete tech
Oh God!😂🎉 Lol! Where is Boston Dynamics where you need them?
Satire at its finest...👌🤣👍
Mable was the original terminator....she won't be back...
My personal inholeful opinion: most potential comedian gonna born from hospital
2:50 BUDDY CMON
Yeeeeeaahh, going to assume it was on purpose, but ikr
anyone know the song once they introduce mable ive seen it on an instagram ad but can’t find it anywhere!
Mabel takes up so much space
The vision:
The reality: "You will do the mundane factory work so robots can create art and music."
And yet Daleks couldn't go upstairs until 2005!
No wonder they lost to a man with a screwdriver.
2024… still waiting for Mable
Maybe Mabel could do something about the professor's hair.....
You will be able to buy a terrifying robot for 500 quid !
If robots have to make that much noise I can't see them taking off.
Ten bob per day running cost? Stroll on, we're not made of money here!
Where's my robot house maid !!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
The professor has very professorry hair.
🤣
The future by the time 1976 arrives? They could have at least made this episode in colour -- heh heh.
I wonder if there are any of these talking about robotic surgery.
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
Did he say his name was professor frink?!
Like off Simpsons?
Did I mis-hear?
I'd rather have a color TV than an "Able Mabel" 😜
funny how the estimate comes in at a nice round one million pounds, and he'll see you in ten years......
"its safe to drink and drive"
There's Mabel putting a bottle of Tizer on the boil
In this 2022, I still waiting one robot that serve my breakfrast near to my beed, ok, I still other 40 years more.
I would say no to a quick robotic polish of my morning wood. Less complaining.
Robots back then didn't have such tiny hands.
Is there room for a fleshlight?
Lol this is great!!!
Dear people in 1976...... we the people in the future have run out of wives that can willingly preform the household duties that mabel does, without complaint and unworkable entitlement issues. They simply do not exist anymore. Could you please send us millions of orders for Mabel please?
What the hell happened. We should have this by now.
Well, evidently they didn't get million pounds that they needed.
@@Grim2 was about to say that 😂
Some people have bought Alexa, so...
Well I’M HERE! It’s me! I was born in 1976 and… 🤖 I aM A rrrObOt!
Petril !
This is its own self-contained eerie Twilight Zone episode.
Making tee and fill up a bathtub? Not really things I need a robot for. Vacuum cleaner, sure. That's what current specialized robots like the Rhumbas are for.
But a general robot doing the normal easy mundane everyday things?
It got uncomfortable real quick when he started throwing around the word “slave.” 😂
Well he got one thing right - the USA was ahead with computing.
Current likely development cost - $10-100 trillion. Anticipated time - another 56 years.
For all that time I was waiting for someone from Vault-Tec to show up, but no.
Tesla Ai day 1966
YOU WILL SLEEP NOW CHILD! ENTERING SLEEP MODE! 🤖
Is he related to Professor Ping from Barbarella?