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	I, Robot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The First Law still applies to this robot, and it is lying to them about the thoughts it has read in order not to hurt their feelings, especially in terms of the problem it was initially designed to solve.
		The reason that the robot must be found is because people are still by and large scared of robots, and if they found one with a different First Law there would be an outcry, even though the robot is still incapable of harming a human.
		US Robots are approached by their biggest competitor with plans for a spacejump engine, but are wary because in performing the calculations, their rival's supercomputer destroyed itself.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/i/i_/i__robot.html (1729 words)

	Lost Tales: Isaac Asimov
		US Robots and Mechanical Men was founded in 1982.
		By the early 2000s Susan Calvin was working for US Robots as the first ever robopsychologist, yet at the same time robots were being banned throughout Earth.
		US Robots remains under the leadership of the Robinsons and Smythes for generations to come; but nevertheless this is the end of an era.
	www.angelfire.com /rings/katsaris/isaac.htm (843 words)

	Promise of Science: Robots
		Robots are often made in the image of man. This can be for several reasons, such as making humans comfortable with the robots, allowing the robots to move freely among humans, or simply to satisfy the ego of a robot's creator.
		Robby the Robot is an invention of the extinct Krell.
		Robots tend to be created by a superior intelligence as servants or assistants to perform manual labor or other tasks that are beyond the capabilities of their creators.
	www.umich.edu /~umfandsf/film/promise/robots.html (949 words)

	Robots: A Cultural Blender website
		The most famous movie robot of the fifties, however, is Robby the Robot from the movies "Forbidden Planet" (1956) and "The Invisible Boy".(1957) The familiar sound of Robby's inner "brain" working, as antennas twirled and switches clicked, was a familiar staple in science fiction throughout the 50s and 60s.
		The first section, "Robots in the Real World" details the history of robotics, and shows that those friendly but dissatisfied humanoid denizens of the future are really hydraulic multi jointed arms and small R2D2 like wheeled boxes and cannisters that look nothing like a human being.
		Robots is part of the AllThingsMike Webhub Artwork for the logo and the navigation bar is by Sorayama and is copyrighted material.
	www.allthingsmike.com /CulturalBlender/robots.html (1353 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: I, Robot / Isaac Asimov
		The Three Laws of Robotics are perhaps SF's most well-known creations, and in his earliest tales of the robots, Asimov focused primarily on those laws and the bizarre problems which might arise when the robots themselves interpret them differently than one might expect.
		Briefly, the laws prevent robots from harming people in any way; require robots to obey people unless they are ordered to harm someone; and oblige robots to protect their own existence unless they risk harming people by doing so.
		One robot refuses to believe it was built by "inferior" humans, and develops a religious mania, worshipping the station itself and claiming to be the station's "prophet." Another robot on the surface of Mercury finds itself facing a conflict between laws, and ends up malfunctioning so that it seems literally drunk.
	www.sfreviews.net /irobot.html (597 words)

	The History of the Positronic Robot and Foundation Stories
		The robot is given into the care of Dr. Susan Calvin, a plain, lonely robopsychologist at US Robots who is attracted to a handsome co-worker named Milton Ashe.
		The robot assures Calvin that Ashe is likewise attracted to her, but Calvin eventually learns (to her embarrassment) that he is not.
		The robot lied to Calvin because it, like all robots, is programmed to prevent humans from being injured, and Calvin was suffering emotional distress from her unrequited love.
	www.asimovonline.com /oldsite/Robot_Foundation_history_1.html (2080 words)

	Book vs. Movie: I, Robot
		In the various robot stories, Dr. Calvin traverses from tale to tale, explaining the importance of the three "Laws of Robotics" and how important it is that the robots adhere to this always-vital programming.
		Instead of US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., the primary company is US Robotics, which is a real-world company that currently deals in modem technology and wireless connectivity.
		All of the actions taken by the robots are in fact the very result of the laws that have been ingrained into them, and the approach the director and screenwriters take to accomplish such a result is done with an intelligence and ingenuity that stays very much within the paradigms defined by Asimov.
	www.boxofficeprophets.com /column/index.cfm?columnID=8449 (1417 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - 'The Complete Robot' by Isaac Asimov
		While US Robots and Mechanical Men do their best to try and prove that robots can be helpful and cannot be harmful, laws are still passed preventing robots being used on Earth except in certain circumstances.
		A man gets a humanoid robot to help his wife with the housework, and as a test of using robots with the general public, an idea she is initially against due to having roboxenophobia.
		The robot is in the form of a good-looking man and, surprisingly, she gradually warms to the idea.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A455898 (2978 words)

	Isaac Asimov : Rest of the Robots
		Robot Tony is the first robot designed to perform domestic duties by the US Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation.
		Robot Al was intended for shipment to a mining outfit on the moon.
		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.
	www.sfbok.se /asp/artikel2.asp?VolumeID=5006 (149 words)

	Encyclopedia Galactica - Robotics - The Three Laws
		A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction allow a human being to come to harm.
		Thou shalt protect the robot with all thy might and all thy heart and all thy soul.
		Thou shalt hold the interests of US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. holy provided it interfereth not with the First Law.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Dimension/1136/robots/robotlaws.html (258 words)

	ITP.net {News: US Robotics agrees to have US$50m Platinum makeover} (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This month’s capture of US Robotics by private equity firm Platinum Equity marks the latest chapter in the history of one of the most famous names of the technology industry.
		One of the archetypal garage start-ups, US Robotics was once valued at as much as US$6billion but was probably sold for less than US$50million, according to reports.
		The terms of this deal were not announced but US Robotics chief executive Joseph Hartnett had told a US newspaper last year that he was looking to sell the business for between US$30 million and US$50million.
	www.itp.net /news/details.php?id=17403&category= (579 words)

	The Science Fiction Review - Books
		Several of these stories involve Susan Calvin, the top robo-psychologist for the only robot manufacturing company, US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. If anyone is interested in reading the Robot Novel series, this book kind of acts as a nice introduction to the basic concepts.
		There are thousands of robots for each person and most contact between people, even husband and wife, is done through a trimensional connection that is indistinguishable from normal sight.
		During their investigation they find robots that wonder what it is like to be human, comedians, artists, etc. In the midst of all this a robot is murdered and Derec must find the killer and figure out why these robots acting so differently.
	www.scifi-review.net /books.php (5015 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - I, Robot
		The situations where it seems that the robots are unproductive or even malicious are constructed so that the flaw can eventually be found to be human misunderstanding or misinterpretation of the loosely worded Laws of Robotics.
		The First Law still applies to this robot, and it is lying to them about the thoughts it has "read" in order not to hurt them, especially in terms of the problem it was intially designed to solve.
		The robots turn out to be indestructible by the Jovians and, assuming them to be representative of humans, they surrender before the war has started.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A376319 (2998 words)

	Amazon.com: The Complete Robot (Robot Series): Books: Isaac Asimov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As well as TN-3 (Tony), AL-76 and other robots, the stories feature the staff of U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men Inc., and in particular the chief robot-psychologist, the steely Dr Susan Calvin who is in many ways more robot-like than her subjects.
		Robot Dreams is actually a more generic compendium and has only three robot stories, the title story being unique to Robot Dreams.
		So The Complete Robot has all the I, Robot stories, and all the robot stories of Robot Dreams and Robot Visions excepting their respective title stories, which were newly written for those books and together with the fantastic artwork of Ralph McQuarrie probably justifies the purchase for collectors, completists and fans.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0586057242?v=glance (1838 words)

	Encyclopedia Galactica - Timeline - Ancient -2064AD
		Alfred Lanning demonstrates the first mobile robot to be equipped with a voice at a Psycho-Math seminar which is attended by Susan Calvin.
		US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. robot production reaches three a week.
		US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. enter into a contract with Consolidated Robots to solve the mathematics of the hyperspatial jump.
	www.geocities.com /Area51/Dimension/1136/timeline/ancient.html (333 words)

	Encyclopedia Galactica - Robotics - Glossary
		Immobile robot used by US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. to solve the mathematics of hyperspatial travel.
		The first series of robots designed by US Robots and Mechanical Men that were non-humanoid in appearance.
		Solarian robot specifically designed to initiate/terminate trimensional viewing in Elijah Baley's dwelling during his visit to Solaria.
	members.tripod.com /TerminusCity/robots/robots.html (223 words)

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		the Robot series and the Foundation series are, among other things, about the power to decide the destiny of humanity.
		It is mentalistic robots that bend human thinking in their (robots) prefered direction.
		So if you, Susan Calvin and the robots, know the answers to a certain question, this must just be imprinted in society as a 3 dimensional power operation.
	www.fortunecity.com /skyscraper/lol/1165/recentposts/asimovpower.txt (870 words)

	Slashdot \| I, Robot Hits the Theaters
		As someone who grew up with Isaac Asimov's robot stories, I've come to expect a mystery based on the implications of the 3 Laws of Robotics (or the lack of one or part of one of those laws), the "Frankenstein Complex," and Dr. Susan Calvin.
		However, the central character is a robot that has something go very wrong with his "asimov circuits." The result is a tendancy to murder people and yet no-one in society believes he's capable of it (especially other robots), because they assume he's governed by the three laws.
		The robotic Muhammad was kind of funny, and actually more along the lines of breakdown I would expect in something so advanced as they are supposed to be, but I am pretty sure I would be offended by it if I were a Muslim.
	features.slashdot.org /features/04/07/16/1456201.shtml?tid=9&tid=214&t (5585 words)

	Readers' Services Annotations - Reviews
		In this most influential of Asimov’s many robot stories, Susan Calvin reminisces about her long career as a robopsychologist at U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., the company that developed the positronic brain that revolutionized robot science.
		She remembers Robbie, a household robot who inspires amazing devotion in the child he cares for, and Cutie, the robot who eventually decided that the machine it serviced was a god.
		In her favorite stories, the Laws of Robotics, a code of behavior hard-wired into each robot, causes conflict and a puzzle that requires a human being to solve it.
	www.skokie.lib.il.us /Annotations/BookReview.asp?BookID=1178 (192 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. The Three Laws Of Robotics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Robots and Empire, Giskard was the first robot to act according to the Zeroth Law, although it proved destructive to his positronic brain, as he violated the First Law.
		The jury of three men and three women deliberated for 2 1/2 hours before announcing the decision against Unit Handling Systems in a suit by the family of Robert Williams, who was killed Jan. 25, 1979.
		Attorneys for the family said the robot should have been equipped with devices to warn workers that it was operating.
	fusionanomaly.net /threelawsofrobotics.html (1280 words)

	Three Laws Of Robotics
		For example, telling a robot to drive you to work, and the robot knowing the risks involved in driving you to work are not outweighed by whether or not you lose your job wouldn't be too hard, with a sufficiently strong order.
		Defective or badly designed robots were fail-safe in the sense that they would be the equivalent comatose or dead before they could act contrary to the laws.
		Without the three laws, robots would not be accepted by the general public, and US Robots still had to work very hard to transfer the technology from the industries such as space exploration to the domestic, such as house servants.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?ThreeLawsOfRobotics (1859 words)

	Reviews: Robots - Christianity Today Movies
		While entertaining, Robots almost feels like a mechanical exercise (okay, I'll quit the puns) in how to make an entertaining family film instead of relying on innovative storytelling to create magic like CG powerhouses The Incredibles and Shrek 2 accomplished.
		But no matter what they are made of, the robots of this world are really just metal people with emotions and human experiences—including growing up, having dreams, and resigning to failure.
		Robots, the new animated feature from the makers of Ice Age, was a well-oiled box office machine, earning $36 million in its first weekend—but falling short of the March record set by Ice Age in 2002 ($46.3 million).
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/robots.html (1934 words)

	Robots
		Robots delights on a visual level, but the story feels like it came off an assembly line.
		Robots is in high gear from start to finish.
		The sophistication of its humor is at the level of The Simpsons, and the computer animation is a wonder.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/robots (868 words)

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		While US Robots and Mechanical Men could have built robots without the first law, GENOM's dominance of the Combat 'bot market had made this simply unprofitable to even try to compete.
		With Boomers working better than ever before, US Robots and Mechanical Men and Gulf and Bradley moving into the market with less dangerous (if not so impressive) robots, and the city calmer than ever before, there seemed to be less need for the ADPolice.
		I also got to chase a robot dog eight blocks, pulled a cat out of a tree, closed down a barbershop with badly maintained L-class boomers and argued for a half hour with some idiot American about whether or not a boomer stole her husband's car." He sighed.
	www.maison-otaku.net /~rhea/Shiva/Parents (18155 words)

	Call Waiting: Buffybot
		There were two men and one woman there, all standing in the sun.
		One of the men was in her database.
		She was the chief robopsychologist of US Robots and Mechanical Men in Asimov's I, Robot collection.
	members.cox.net /ejablow/mmos/call.html (493 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When I push a button on this," she held up a remote control, "the field vanishes and the two halves slam together and explode." "Maybe that thing could blow up the Planet-Smasher without us needing to find its weakpoints." "Neutronium is immune to anti-matter because it's all neutrons.
		Unfortunately, something is blocking subspace communications, so we don't know what is going on for sure." Mihoshi said, "Is that why you called us?" Suddenly, in the odd way she had, she was all business, though what passed for all business with her wouldn't qualify with many.
		He was working for US Robots and Mechanical Men, which had expanded operations into Tokyo after GENOM's destruction.
	www.thekeep.org /~wombat/Stories/BMR/BMR6.txt (13233 words)

	Starship Modeler: Robots and Vehicles Introduction
		That's why we created an area dedicated to the robots and other vehicles which are a critical staple of modern science fiction.
		Robots and mechanical men have been a staple of science fiction almost from the start.
		Isaac Asimov foresaw the problem of mechanical "near beings" running amok in the early 1940s and in the course of writing robot stories for Astounding Science Fiction magazine, worked out the code of conduct he called the Three Laws of Robotics.
	www.starshipmodeler.com /rv/rvintro.htm (1034 words)

	Encyclopedia Galactica - Characters - W-Z
		Became the Mule's Viceroy on Terminus after he was converted.
		Engineered the abortive attack on the First Foundation which led to the non-aggression treaties, known as the Foundation Convention, signed by the First Foundation and the Four Kingdoms.
		Robotical Engineer of US Robots and Mechanical Men who unsuccessfully analysed the remains of the disinto built by robot AL-76.
	members.tripod.com /TerminusCity/chars/chars15.html (184 words)

	Complete Robot/Asimov, Isaac/BUSF00012 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		These 'positronic robots' obey the famous Three Laws of Robotics.
		As well as TN-3 (Tony) and AL-76 and other robots, the stories feature the staff of the US Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation - in particular, of course, the chief robot-psychologist, the steely Dr Susan Calvin.
		'The Complete Robot' is Asimov's definitive collection of his chilling visions of a robotic future...
	www.bookworm.com.au /sf00012.htm (104 words)

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