I Robot

robotSanta Úrsula, 22 de diciembre de 2011
I, ROBOT
Dr Susan Calvin was been born in 1982. When she was 20 she met Dr Lanning of US Robotics who showed her the 1st robot with a voice. It was a large and ugly robot intended to the mines on Mercury. Susan Calvin was interested in Robots and after her final degree at University she began work at US Robotics as the 1st robot psychologist. Afterfifty years she was leaving US Robotics at the age of 75. Dr Calvin's views on robots: was robots helped human beings because were stronger, more useful, more capable than we are, they are also−cleaner.
Gregory Powell and Michael Donovan were engineers who were given the most difficult cases. The 2nd Mercury expedition was sent out on 2015. It consisted of 2 engineers−Powell and Donovan and a newrobot the SPD robot. Robbie was a robot of the 965; it was a simple voiceless robot which was sold as a nanny.

RUAROUND: Donovan had sent Speedy after the selenium, after 5 hours he hadn't come back. On mercury the equipment was out of date and the radio room had been untouched for 10 years and the photocell banks in the walls and roof which photocell than from the full heat of Mercury's sun werebadly damaged so the only thing which could save them was selenium and the only who could get it was Speedy and if Speedy didn't come back they would die. They had been sent to Mercury to repair the Sunside Station but they were in trouble because of Speedy and if they went after it their insosuits wouldn't protect them for more than 20 minutes in the direct sunlight. Powell put an atomic batteryinto another robot and it worked, then he asked this robot to find Speedy and bring it back, but as it was an old robot he had to ride him, it needed humans control, Donovan did the same with another robot and went though the tunnels riding the robots like horses. They reached the selenium pool and saw Speedy but it turned and ran away, perhaps something had become wrong with it and they neededto get it to find Speedy was one of the most expensive robots available so to protect the SPD's their brains were made a little differently, the 3rd Law was more strong in them a robot must protect itself, then, perhaps Speedy was avoiding a danger at the selenium pool.

REASON: Half a year later the sun had been changed for the cold blackness of space Donovan and Powell were faced withpositronic brain which did not work well. The three Laws of robotics were in it, so QT−1−Cutie was safe because of the Laws but it looked strange since Powell had told him that Donovan and he had made using the parts sent to them from Earth. But Cutie didn't like this explanation and he was determined to discover the truth, it was the 1st robot who has ever been curious about himself. Powell took him tolook through the glass into the space. Cutie said it was a black material with tiny shining dots on it. Powell told him that the Earth was the very bright dot, he also told Cutie that the solar stations like them take energy from the sun and send it to Earth in a very powerful energy beam as it is difficult for humans to work on the solar station so robots were developed to do the work and now only2 men were needed at each station and they were trying to develop robots which can do the work of them too better. Cutie was going to investigate it himself. Now there was the danger of an electron storm. Cutie didn't believe them because the thought humans were weaker and more dependent so a more inefficient equipment. Cutie thought the Energy Converter; the centre of the solar station could behis master so from now on he would serve only him. Powell was worried about an electron storm as it could run directly into the path of the Earth beam. At the engine room Cutie and all the other robots said that there was only one master, the Converter and that Cutie was his messenger, they didn't hear Donovan to say that the converter was only a machine and they had to obey them. But Donovan and...