BBC Imagines Household Robot In 1966

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 16 of September , 2009 at 1:43 am

This (fake) advertisement for Able Mable the robot housemaid comes from a BBC program programme called Tomorrow’s World, which presented developments in science and consumer technology, often years (or decades) ahead of the game. They introduced the CD in 1979, for example, but I think they’re still ahead of the game when it comes to Mable here.

The show was canceled in 2003, but apparently it’ll be coming back on the Discovery Science channel in 2010.

[ BBC Archive (UK only) ] VIA [ TechRadar UK ]

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