Able Mabel

The first half of this 1966 ad is to promote a household robot that was expected to be available by 1976. She's not quite as smooth or as quick as Rosie from The Jetsons, but she seemed awesome for the time. The second half is a more honest assessment of how far the robot had to go at that time, hosted by a roboticist in great s]need of some Brylcreem. What really happened is that we made improvements for each task separately. A Roomba is much smaller. A Ring doorbell is tiny and stays in one place. And no one irons because we just improved fabric to not need it. (via Nag on the Lake)