1967: Can Humans and Robots Co-Exist? | Towards Tomorrow | BBC Archive

Your future is being created now - for better or for worse? How close are we to constructing the robot of the future? Will there be one in every house? How human will it look? These are some of the questions this programme tries to answer. Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer and prophet of the Robot age, introduces the programme and predicts a future in which man and robots form a combined culture, a culture in which, to use his own words, "mankind may want robots not only as helpers and servants but also as friends, as something with which they can identify". Towards Tomorrow explores laboratories in England and America to discover how near scientists and engineers are to turning Asimov's science fiction into science fact. With contributions from Don Carter - the mechanical engineer behind robot humanoid Sim One, Joseph Engelberger - the father of the Unimate industrial robot, Professor Meredith Thring - the British Inventor and Professor of mechanical engineering at Queen Mary College, and the esteemed science fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke. Clip taken from Towards Tomorrow: Robot, originally broadcast on BBC One, 28 December, 1968. You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults. Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive - https://www.youtube.com/c/BBCArchive?... You can also dive into plenty more BBC Archive on our website - https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive