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I, Robot

Isaac Asimov
Contents ( 11)
  1. I, Robot
  2. INTRODUCTION
  3. 1. ROBBIE
  4. 2. RUNAROUND
  5. 3. REASON
  6. 4. CATCH THAT RABBIT
  7. 5. LIAR!
  8. 6. LITTLE LOST ROBOT
  9. 7. ESCAPE!
  10. 8. EVIDENCE
  11. 9. THE EVITABLE CONFLICT

This classic science fiction masterwork by Isaac Asimov weaves stories about robots, humanity, and the deep questions of existence into a novel of shocking intelligence and heart.

I, Robot, the first and most widely read book in Asimov’s Robot series, forever changed the world’s perception of artificial intelligence. Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-reading robots, and robots with a sense of humor. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world—all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asimov’s trademark.

With the Three Laws of Robotics, Isaac Asimov formulated the laws governing robots’ behavior. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future—a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.

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Isaac Asimov

I, Robot

Foundation Universe: Robot Series - 0

ePub r1.1

Titivillus 22.10.2021

Isaac Asimov, 1950

Illustrations: Alex Wells

Digital editor: Titivillus

ePub base r2.1

Fuente incrustada
Ex libris

To John W. Campbell, Jr.,

who godfathered the robots

CONTENTS

The Three Laws of Robotics

Introduction

1. Robbie

2. Runaround

3. Reason

4. Catch that Rabbit

5. Liar!

6. Little Lost Robot

7. Escape!

8. Evidence

9. The Evitable Conflict

About the Author

Chapters

THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS:

  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
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INTRODUCTION

I LOOKED AT my notes and I didn’t like them. I’d spent three days at U.S. Robots and might as well have spent them at home with the Encyclopedia Tellurica.

Susan Calvin had been born in the year 1982, they said, which made her seventy-five now. Everyone knew that. Appropriately enough, U.S. Robot and Mechanical Men, Inc., was seventy-five also, since it had been in the year of Dr. Calvin’s birth that Lawrence Robertson had first taken out incorporation papers for what eventually became the strangest industrial giant in man’s history. Well, everyone knew that, too.

At the age of twenty, Susan Calvin had been part of the particular Psycho-Math seminar at which Dr. Alfred Lanning of U.S. Robots had demonstrated the first mobile robot to be equipped with a voice. It was a large, clumsy unbeautiful robot, smelling of machine-oil and destined for the projected mines on Mercury.—But it could speak and make sense.

Susan said nothing at that seminar; took no part in the hectic discussion period that followed. She was a frosty girl, plain and colorless, who protected herself against a world she disliked by a mask-like expression and a hypertrophy of intellect. But as she watched and listened, she felt the stirrings of a cold enthusiasm.