Post by ScreenHead One on Nov 6, 2022 12:42:45 GMT -6
Author: Isaac Asimov ~ The Rest of the Robots (1964)
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? - 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
Contents
The Coming of the Robots:
"Robot AL-76 Goes Astray" (1942)
"Victory Unintentional" (1942), Jovians series #2
The Coming of the Robots:
"Robot AL-76 Goes Astray" (1942)
"Victory Unintentional" (1942), Jovians series #2
The Laws of Robotics:
"First Law" (1956)
"Let's Get Together" (1957)
"First Law" (1956)
"Let's Get Together" (1957)
Susan Calvin:
"Satisfaction Guaranteed" (1951)
"Risk" (1955), novelette
"Lenny" (1958)
"Galley Slave" (1957), novelette
"Satisfaction Guaranteed" (1951)
"Risk" (1955), novelette
"Lenny" (1958)
"Galley Slave" (1957), novelette
Lije Baley:
The Caves of Steel (1953), novel
The Naked Sun (1956), novel
The Caves of Steel (1953), novel
The Naked Sun (1956), novel
A classic collection of eight short stories and two full-length novels—all about robots and robotics—completing the entire library of Asimov robot writings begun in I, Robot.
At first they were simple, unthinking machines victimized by frightened men suffering from a “Frankenstein complex.” Later, as the technology advanced, they became capable of independent action. In eight short stories and two novels, master storyteller Isaac Asimov traces the development of positronic robots with brains of platinum-iridium.
Sensible, non-mephisophelian robots designed by engineers and not pseudo-men created by blasphemers, Asimov’s robots revolutionized the field of science fiction. All the more fascinating because they are not supernatural creatures but precision engineered machines, the positronic robots react along rational lines that exist in their brains from the moment the last rivet is in place and the last electrical connection has been made.
At first they were simple, unthinking machines victimized by frightened men suffering from a “Frankenstein complex.” Later, as the technology advanced, they became capable of independent action. In eight short stories and two novels, master storyteller Isaac Asimov traces the development of positronic robots with brains of platinum-iridium.
Sensible, non-mephisophelian robots designed by engineers and not pseudo-men created by blasphemers, Asimov’s robots revolutionized the field of science fiction. All the more fascinating because they are not supernatural creatures but precision engineered machines, the positronic robots react along rational lines that exist in their brains from the moment the last rivet is in place and the last electrical connection has been made.