AT&T Voice Technology Commercial (2006)

This cool commercial features the advancement of voice technology by AT&T through out the years. With special cameos by the 1939 World’s Fair VODER (VOice recordER), Robby the Robot (Forbidden Planet), WOPR (War Games), Rosie the Maid Robot (The Jetsons), and KITT (Knight Rider).
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Rosie the Robot – The Jetsons

Rosie the Robot maid first appeared in 1962. She was featured in the Hanna Barbera cartoon series, the Jetsons. 3d model created by John Picha.
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Intel’s Robot Butler Serves, Clears, and Does Dishes

Our collective dream of a Jetsons-like future is inching closer to reality with a little help from Intel, which this week showed off HERB (the Home Exploring Robot Butler) to FastCompany.com. The robotic butler, built as part of a collaboration with the Quality of Life Technology Center and Carnegie Mellon University, uses six multi-core computers along with multiple sensors to perform various tasks around the kitchen. HERB has some powerful capabilities. It can serve, toss things in the trash (or recycling), sort dishes and place them in the dishwasher, and more. But there are still plenty of issues to overcome before HERB can will be scrubbing your pots. During our demonstration, Intel programmers spent nearly 10 minutes debugging code before the HERB was finally able to grasp a container and throw it away. Once HERB got going, though, we could see a real-life robo-maid become a very distinct possibility. Check out our video below. Ariel Schwartz can be reached on Twitter …

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iRobot Scooba Unboxing. Robot Mop!

Rosie may have been just a fictional character from the Jetsons, but the idea of a robot maid is not that far off, and the folks at iRobot are helping that dream become a reality. I’ve long used a Roomba, and always been quite happy with the performance. I curious if the same will be true for its mopping brother. Stay tuned to see if the Scooba 350 is worth your hard earned money. For More: Scooba: cuthut.com TechnoBuffalo: technobuffalo.com Follow me on twitter: cuthut.com iRobot Scooba 350
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Tums Jetsons

George Jetson gets heartburn and Rosie helps him out with a Tums Quikpak.