This panel examines forms of computational automation, from robots to AI-powered holograms in an Asian and Asian American context. We explore how these artifacts enact various kinds of racialized labors and affective work, from carework, mourning, memory and testimonial, and the mediation of anxieties about ecological devastation intensified by the current moment of technocapitalism. We discuss actual robots and cultural productions about them, from film, television, and other media.