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The Rest of the Robots is the third timeless, amazing and amusing volume of Isaac Asimov's robot stories, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics have since been programmed into real computers the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and used as the outline for a legal robotic charter in Korea.
ROBOT TONY is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the US Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation. Is it Tony’s fault that the lady of the house where he’s field tested falls in love with him? - ROBOT AL was intended for shipment to a mining outfit on the moon. Instead, he’s loose in the mountains of Virginia…building from scraps of junk his very own, very dangerous disintegrator. - ROBOT LENNY answers workaday questions in babytalk. So why is Dr Susan Calvin, the world’s top robopsychologist, fascinated by this messed up specimen of an industrial robot?
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ROBOT TONY is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the US Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation. Is it Tony’s fault that the lady of the house where he’s field tested falls in love with him?
ROBOT AL was intended for shipment to a mining outfit on the moon. Instead, he’s loose in the mountains of Virginia … building from scraps of junk his very own, very dangerous disintegrator. Goodbye, Virginia?
ROBOT LENNY answers workaday questions in babytalk. So why is Dr Susan Calvin, the world’s top robopsychologist, fascinated by this messed up specimen of an industrial robot?
'THE REST OF THE ROBOTS' is the second timeless, amazing and amusing volume of Isaac Asimov’s robot stories, offering golden insights into robot thought processes. Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics were programmed into real computers thirty years ago at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology – with surprising results. Readers of today still have many platinum iridium surprises in store …
THE THREE LAWS OF ROBOTICS
• A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
• A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law
• 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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This particular collection includes four Susan Calvin stories, of which my favourites were Lenny (which gives Calvin a robot child of her own) and Galley Slave (an ingenious look at a devious academic who is determined to discredit the use of robots). My favourite story in the collection though is Let's Get Together, a cold war story about a plot to use of human-like robots to take over the United States - it's truly ingenious and v. tense.
Considering that these stories were written between the 1940s and 1960s, it's not surprising that some of the technology is out of date, but the basic integrity of the stories and Asimov's use of mystery still holds the attention. In particular, I enjoy Asimov's spare use of prose - there's nothing flashy about his writing and the bare style makes it even easier to believe and Susan Calvin is one of the strongest female characters in science fiction - strong, cold and high-minded, she runs rings around every male she comes across.
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