Babies are cared for by MACHINES in 60s video

Anyone who's ever had children will know that every parent needs a break at some point - but a recently resurfaced video from the 1960s seemed to take that idea to new extremes. The footage, taken in 1960 as part of a news report, shows a nurse operating some'High-Tec' baby care equipment in a state-of-the-art nursery in Budapest, Hungary, which was run by the Communist-regime at the time. The video was produced as a prediction of what could be expected from childcare in the future. The imagined equipment can not only move babies from one crib to another at the touch of a button, but can also feed them by lowering a bottle into their arms, leaving no need for mum and dad. The invention is just a prototype, though, with the nursery being used as a demonstration of how robotics could help care for babies.