This knight-like robot named Eric was designed in 1928, in Gomshall, United Kingdom. It “spoke” with a pre-recorded human voice. Credit: Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images Keystone-France ...

Eric the Robot, who loosely resembled a 6-foot tall version of L. Frank Baum’s Tinman from the Wizard of Oz—Baum’s book was first published in 1900, but the blockbuster movie would not be ...

Yet despite his popularity with the press and public, Eric mysteriously vanished just a few years later. This was a relatively common fate for early robots, which were often cannabilised for parts ...

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NYPD has pulled its robot security cops from the Times Square subway station The end of the AI security system comes just months after Mayor Eric Adams unveiled the robots and described them as ...

As Eric Nakamura has been going out to promote “Giant Robot: Thirty Years of Defining Asian American Pop Culture,” the 400+ page hardcover compilation of articles that ran in turn-of-the ...