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i, robot isaac asimov to john w. campbell, jr, who godfathered the robots the story entitled robbie was first published as strange playfellow in super science stories. copyright © 1940 by fictioneers, inc.; copyright © 1968 by isaac asimov. the following stories were originally published in astounding science fiction: reason, copyright © 1941 by street and smith publications, inc.; copyright © 1969 by isaac asimov. liar! copyright © 1941 by street and smith publications, inc.; copyright © 1969 by isaac asimov. runaround, copyright © 1942 by street and smith publications, inc.; copyright ©1970 by isaac asimov. catch that rabbit, copyright © 1944 by street and smith publications, inc. escape, copyright © 1945 by street and smith publications, inc. evidence, copyright © 1946 by street and smith publications, inc. little lost robot, copyright © 1947 by street and smith publications, inc. the evitable conflict, copyright © 1950 by street and smith …

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........................................... 77 escape! .............................................................................................................................................. 97 evidence.......................................................................................................................................... 114 the evitable conflict ...................................................................................................................... 132 2 introduction i looked at my notes and i didn’t like them. i’d spent three days at u. s. robots and might as well have spent them at home with the encyclopedia tellurica. susan calvin had been born in the year 1982, they said, which made her seventy-five now. everyone knew that. appropriately enough, u. s. robot and mechanical men, inc. was seventy- five also, since it had been in the year of dr. calvin’s birth that lawrence robertson had first taken out incorporation papers for what eventually became the strangest industrial giant in man’s history. well, everyone knew that, too. at the age of twenty, susan calvin had been part of the particular psycho-math seminar at which dr. alfred lanning of u. s. robots had demonstrated the first mobile robot to be equipped with a voice. it …

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miles of relays and photocells had given way to the spongy globe of plantinumiridium about the size of a human brain. she learned to calculate the parameters necessary to fix the possible variables within the “positronic brain”; to construct “brains” on paper such that the responses to given stimuli could be accurately predicted. in 2008, she obtained her ph.d. and joined united states robots as a “robopsychologist,” becoming the first great practitioner of a new science. lawrence robertson was still president of the corporation; alfred lanning had become director of research. for fifty years, she watched the direction of human progress change and leap ahead. now she was retiring — as much as she ever could. at least, she was allowing someone else’s name to be inset upon the door of her office. that, essentially, was what i had. i had a long list of her published papers, of the …

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ut like an aerial photograph. “when i first came here,” she said, “i had a little room in a building right about there where the fire-house is now.” she pointed. “it was torn down before you were born. i shared the room with three others. i had half a desk. we built our robots all in one building. output — three a week. now look at us.” “fifty years,” i hackneyed, “is a long time.” “not when you’re looking back at them,” she said. “you wonder how they vanished so quickly.” she went back to her desk and sat down. she didn’t need expression on her face to look sad, somehow. “how old are you?” she wanted to know. “thirty-two,” i said. “then you don’t remember a world without robots. there was a time when humanity faced the universe alone and without a friend. now he has creatures to help …

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was all quite ridiculous and quite useless. and yet there it was.” i was taking it down verbatim on my pocket-recorder, trying not to show the knuckle-motions of my hand. if you practice a bit, you can get to the point where you can record accurately without taking the little gadget out of your pocket. “take the case of robbie,” she said. “i never knew him. he was dismantled the year before i joined the company — hopelessly out-of-date. but i saw the little girl in the museum–” she stopped, but i didn’t say anything. i let her eyes mist up and her mind travel back. she had lots of time to cover. “i heard about it later, and when they called us blasphemers and demon-creators, i always thought of him. robbie was a non-vocal robot. he couldn’t speak. he was made and sold in 1996. those were the days …

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i, robot isaac asimov to john w. campbell, jr, who godfathered the robots the story entitled robbie was first published as strange playfellow in super science stories. copyright © 1940 by fictioneers, inc.; copyright © 1968 by isaac asimov. the following stories were originally published in astounding science fiction: reason, copyright © 1941 by street and smith publications, inc.; copyright © 1969 by isaac asimov. liar! copyright © 1941 by street and smith publications, inc.; copyright © 1969 by isaac asimov. runaround, copyright © 1942 by street and smith publications, inc.; copyright ©1970 by isaac asimov. catch that rabbit, copyright © 1944 by street and smith publications, inc. escape, copyright © 1945 by street and smith publications, inc. evidence, copyright …

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