Primeira Lei - Um robot não deve fazer mal a um ser humano ou, por inacção, permitir que um ser humano sofra qualquer mal.
Segunda Lei - Um robot deve obedecer a qualquer ordem dada por um ser humano, desde que essa ordem não interfira com a execução da Primeira Lei.
Terceira Lei - Um robot deve proteger a sua existência desde que esta protecção não interfira com a Primeira e a Segunda Leis.
Foi Isaac Asimov quem, há quarenta anos, criou a palavra robótica. Nas suas antologias aparecem robots de todos os tipos, dos mais simples aos mais complexos, de metal, de plástico ou biónicos. Pela primeira vez, o leitor poderá encontrar, reunidas numa única obra, todos os contos de robots de Asimov. Ai tomará contacto com Robbie, o ama-seca fiel, e Tony, a quem solícitas e delicadas atenções para com uma esposa solitária acabam por conduzir a reacções extremamente humanas. Porque há robots que não se comportam de acordo com aquilo para que foram concebidos, robots que aspiram a atingir a humanidade.
Robot Completo: uma obra única para os que apreciam Isaac Asimov, para os leitores de ficção científica, para os que se interessam por robots, ou simplesmente para os que gostam de contos divertidos, lógicos e estimulantes.
Works of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles, The Foundation Trilogy (1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
Interesting read. It is surprising to know that this book is almost from a half a century ago but still bringing a lot of creative and innovative idea to robotics.