Klatu the Household Robot (1977)

With 30 years of hindsight and research, I feel that some of that un-favorable press was based on Artificial Intelligence gurus who hadn’t achieved much with their own very large budgets, and had observed the promotional robots, not Klatu. Tony Reichelt was a promoter at heart, and was often misunderstood by members of the press; and even more so by the research industry who greatly misinterpreted Quasar’s strategy to create the “illusion” of magic with their Klatu robot. We are careful to always describe our primary interests as Robot Psychologists, employing the convenience of remotely controlled robots ad a means of satisfying both our research goals & the needs of our many audiences to work with such communications tools in totally unrestricted fashion.

Source: cyberneticzoo.com