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The Rest of the Robots



The robots in this book are designed to do household tasks, but they all end up causing trouble. For example, Tony the robot falls in love with the lady of the house, and Robot Al is meant to go to the moon but ends up in Virginia instead. Dr. Susan Calvin is fascinated by Robot Lenny because he talks like a baby. The rest of the robots are also interesting, and readers will have many surprises in... more details
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Author Isaac Asimov
Format Softcover
ISBN 9780586025949
Publication Date 10/01/1994
Publisher COLLINS
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The robots in this book are designed to do household tasks, but they all end up causing trouble. For example, Tony the robot falls in love with the lady of the house, and Robot Al is meant to go to the moon but ends up in Virginia instead. Dr. Susan Calvin is fascinated by Robot Lenny because he talks like a baby. The rest of the robots are also interesting, and readers will have many surprises in store when they read the book. The Three Laws of Robotics are programmed into real computers, and they still hold true today.

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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