Two months after I read it, I began 'Robbie', about a sympathetic robot, and that was the start of my positronic robot series. In his introduction to the story in Isaac Asimov Presents the Great SF Stories (1979), Asimov wrote: Asimov had wanted to call his collection Mind and Iron and objected when the publisher made the title the same as Binder's. The collection shares a title with the then recent short story ' I, Robot' (1939) by Eando Binder (pseudonym of Earl and Otto Binder), which greatly influenced Asimov. Other characters that appear in these short stories are Powell and Donovan, a field-testing team which locates flaws in USRMM's prototype models. The book also contains the short story in which Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics first appear, which had large influence on later science fiction and had impact on thought on ethics of artificial intelligence as well.

Upon their publication in this collection, Asimov wrote a framing sequence presenting the stories as Calvin's reminiscences during an interview with her about her life's work, chiefly concerned with aberrant behaviour of robots and the use of ' robopsychology' to sort out what is happening in their positronic brain. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., the major manufacturer of robots. Several of the stories feature the character of Dr. Although the stories can be read separately, they share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots, and morality, and when combined they tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics. Susan Calvin tells each story to a reporter (who serves as the narrator) in the 21st century. The stories are woven together by a framing narrative in which the fictional Dr.

The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 19 and were then collected into a 1950 publication Gnome Press in 1950, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies. I, Robot is a fixup collection made up of science fiction short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.

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