No 1960s vision of the 21st century was complete without an attentive robot-scuttling around doing household chores. At the time, automation went about as far as the Goblin Teasmade — an unwieldy alarm clock programmed to wake its owner with a-gentle hissing and freshly made cup of tea. It seemed logical that the next step would be fully mechanised homes.
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