Robot Stories
- "Rossums Universal Robots" (1921) by Karel Čapek
- A science fiction play in the Czech language - noted for introducing the term "robot" (though the robots described there would today be described as androids).
- "Robbie" (1939) by Isaac Asimov
- First robot story by Isaac Asimov, published in the September 1940 issue of Super Science Stories.
- "Runaround" (1942) by Isaac Asimov
- First story to list the Three Laws of Robotics, published in the March 1942 issue of Astounding.
- "The Quest for St. Aquin" (1951) by Anthony Boucher
- First, and possibly only, time a robot is portrayed as canonized theologian
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Famous quotes containing the words robot and/or stories:
“Let’s start with the three fundamental Rules of Robotics.... We have: one, a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. And three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.”
—Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
“Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.”
—Eudora Welty (b. 1909)