An American tech fair in Moscow during the Cold War featured a robot vacuum secretly operated by remote control.
The robot floor cleaner of the future, photographed for the July 21, 1959 issue of Look magazine, which was actually controlled remotely by a man in the next room.Elon Musk was showered with praise on social media during his big robotaxi unveiling on Thursday, even if the Tesla CEO’s Cybercab is still just a prototype that may.
Musk is far from the first person to use smoke and mirrors to make robots look like they’re capable of amazing feats while actually being less than transparent about how the technology works. The Tesla CEO’s constant hype of products that don’t actually exist yet reminds me of RCA-Whirlpool’s so-calledfrom the late 1950s. Especially because the kitchen display had a robot that was actually being remote controlled by a human in the next room, despite telling viewers it was working by itself.
“This floor cleaner is operated by a self-charging battery. It controls itself by sensing an electrical path in the floor,” the host continues. “As it passes over the floor, it vacuums up loose particles. And if the floor needs washing, the floor cleaner will wash it with a rotary brush scrubbing action. It will follow up washing with a thorough rinsing.”
In reality, the robot wasn’t working independently at all. Back in 2015, I spoke with a man named Joe Maxwell, then in his 80s, who helped design the kitchen back in the 1950s. Maxwell was working for the design firm Sundberg-Ferar in Detroit and gave me some behind-the-scenes info about the kitchen that had never been written about before.“They said it was sniffing a wire in the floor, which it could have been,” Maxwell told me.
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