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-millennium ...

Before there was Star Wars' C-3PO and the robot who famously warned of "Danger, Will Robinson!" on TV's Lost in Space, there was Eric — one of the world's first real robots. He was built in 1928, less ...