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The Rest of the Robots

By Isaac Asimov

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780586025949

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ROBOT TONY is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the U S 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 looseContinue

ROBOT TONY is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the U S 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 platinumiridium surprises in store..

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 the orders given 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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  • I love Asimov, and will always do.

    I have read virtually every robot story written by Asimov. I started when I was on my teens, and only stopped when I was done with them all. When he died in 1992, I was one of the thousands of unknown mourners that felt as if we had lost a golden opportunity in our lives: I would never ever see him ... (continue)

    I have read virtually every robot story written by Asimov. I started when I was on my teens, and only stopped when I was done with them all. When he died in 1992, I was one of the thousands of unknown mourners that felt as if we had lost a golden opportunity in our lives: I would never ever see him in person. That was my dream when I was a child: that some day I would see Asimov in person. Well, things didn't work out that way. Anyway, I have conversations with him through his tales, writings and books. I love these chats because they are entertaining and happen on demand. In short, I love him and will always do.

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