London Museum Hopes To Reboot Eric, Britain's First Robot

Eric, one of the world's first robots, made his public debut in 1928. 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 than a decade after the word "robot" was first used. He wowed audiences in Britain, where he was created, and elsewhere in Europe and the United States. Now, a team from the Science Museum of London is planning to rebuild him, using original archival materials.