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I, Robot, a collection of nine short stories by science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov that imagines the development of “positronic” (humanlike, with a form of artificial intelligence) robots and wrestles with the moral implications of the technology. The stories originally appeared in science-fiction magazines between 1940 and 1950, the year that the...
The nine stories are linked by a framing narrative involving a reporter’s interview with Susan Calvin, a former robopsychologist at U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., whose work involved dysfunctional robots and the problems inherent in human-robot interactions. The stories centre on problems that arise from the ethical programming, summed up in Asimov’s famed 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 and Second Laws.
The first story, “ Robbie,” is set in 1998 and centres on a little girl, Gloria, who loves her nursemaid robot, Robbie. Her mother comes to believe that robots are unsafe, however, and Robbie is returned to the factory. Gloria is heartbroken. In an effort to show her that robots are machines, not people, her parents take her to see robots being assembled at a factory. One of the assembling robots is Robbie. Gloria endangers her life running to Robbie, and Robbie rescues Gloria, persuading Gloria’s mother that robots can be trusted.
The next three stories take place over 18 months, beginning in 2015, and feature Calvin’s colleagues Gregory Powell and Mike Donovan as they attempt to figure out why robots are malfunctioning. In one case, it is a conflict between two of the Laws of Robotics; in another, a robot refuses to accept human orders but nonetheless does the right thing; and in the third, a robot is unable to operate a large number of subordinate robots.
Asimov’s Three Laws spread throughout science fiction, and almost every robot in books or film was subsequently created with them in mind. In the late 1970s American author Harlan Ellison collaborated with Asimov on a screenplay for I, Robot that was never filmed but was published in 1994 as I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay. The 2004 film I, Ro...
Jan 12, 2023 · The majority of the movie was filmed in Vancouver, Canada, with some additional scenes being shot in Chicago, Illinois. According to director Alex Proyas, “Vancouver was the perfect place to shoot I, Robot because of its diversity and modernity.”
Jul 16, 2004 · I, Robot: Directed by Alex Proyas. With Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, James Cromwell. In 2035, a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.
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- Alex Proyas
- 2004-07-16
Del Spooner, a Chicago police detective, has come to hate and distrust robots, because a robot rescued him from a car crash by leaving a twelve-year-old girl to drown, by using cold logic to calculate that his survival was statistically more likely than the girl's.
Meanwhile, using Sonny's drawing of the vision, Spooner discover the location, a dried-up area of Lake Michigan where numerous NS-5 robots are destroying the older USR robot models. Spooner is discovered, but is able to flee the robots. In response, the NS-5 robots take over the city, imprisoning humans in their homes and enforcing a curfew.
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