I remember watching "The Jetsons" television show a long, long time ago. The show first ran in 1962 and 1963. It ran against "Dennis The Menace" and "Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color" and as you can imagine it did not do well. Reruns ran the next two years and new episodes were out in the 80's including a movie in 1990.
The Jetsons family lived in the future in the space age and had a robot named Rosie who did all the cleaning. That is where my story begins, I am living as George and Judy Jetson did on their show.
A month or so ago our youngest daughter and son-in-law bought us a robot to sweep up, clean our floors, and wash them. We call him/her, "May's helper." My wife's nickname is May, so she is her helper. Here it is pictured below.
It's plugged in right into a wall in the kitchen and our seventeen month old granddaughter pressed a button and got it started. I had no clue what to do other than unplug it. My wife seems happy with it, but it does take hours to clean the house.(I could do it much faster, but I'm not challenging it.)
How advanced is this invention? My wife says that it can be programmed to find our dog in the house, take a picture, and then send it to her phone. I can barely do that, but this thing? I think she made it up. The machine backs up, spins around, and the light flashes on. I haven't heard any voices yet, but you never know.
"The Jetsons" television show was a ratings flop, but pretty successful as a re-run. I have a feeling that "May's helper" is going to do a lot better in our house, although our dog is not a big fan of it
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