Despite this, we are made to sympathize with her view, and see her care deeply for several of the models, being tricked into romantic love and choosing to become a mother figure. Other characters directly compare her to them, marking her as emotionless and dedicated as any robot. Androids Are People, Too: Dr Calvin, a misanthrope who only cares for her robots, is used to humanize the robot characters.

Bottom line, robots don't go cuckoo for seemingly no reason they go cuckoo explicitly as a result of a human error in logical reasoning, which the protagonists have to figure out. Each story explores ways in which the Three Laws could conflict and cause the robots to not behave as intended, but the sphere of actions available to a robot always remains restricted to obeying the Three Laws or alternate interpretations of the Laws. Isaac Asimov felt it was absolutely ridiculous (and boring/cliche as a story concept) for robots/machines to behave in ways not covered by their programming, so he created the Three Laws of Robotics as a guiding principle.

By inference, we can tell the introduction begins in 2058 AD. The world is ruled by a single planetary government, robots/machines are used for nearly everything, and humanity has colonized parts of the solar system.

20 Minutes into the Future: The Framing Device is set many years after the stories being told by Dr Calvin.

It has inspired several adaptations/homages, such as The Alan Parsons Project's 1977 album, the 1978 movie screenplay that was published in 1994, the 2004 movie starring Will Smith, and the 2005 short story by Cory Doctorow. This book has been continuously in print since it was first published, and has been included in multiple Omnibuses.

If you are looking for the first arcade video game to use solid 3D rendered raster graphics, created by Atari in 1984, click here. If you are looking for the 1939 short story by Eando Binder from which Asimov's publisher stole the title, click here. Is a Crapshoot, exploring the specific faults in logical reasoning which may cause a robot to conclude that it must behave erratically. The stories are essentially a Genre Deconstruction of A.I. This volume reprints several stories that were notable for redefining the perception of robots in fiction, introducing the word 'robotics', and inventing the Three Laws of Robotics. Together, they tell the history of robots and humans. First published in 1950 by Dr Asimov with Gnome Press, this collection was edited into a complete Novel by adding a Framing Device of a journalist interviewing Dr Susan Calvin.

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