Honeywell Had The World’s First Fembots In 1968


This 1968 promotional video for Honeywell’s electronics and computing equipment also includes a glimpse of the company’s work in obviously faked robotics. Miss Honeywell might be billed as the ‘world’s first robotic woman’, but even Vicki from Small Wonder was more convincing.

She does seem to be winning over the Parisian engineers attending that expo, but then again, when is a woman in silver face paint not endearing? [British Pathé via Laughing Squid]


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