Later Version
The revised version of the story includes extra content which depicts the first appearance (in the stories' internal chronology) of Susan Calvin and provides continuity with the rest of the anthology I, Robot.
Susan, then a college student, is at a museum in New York observing an exhibit of "the first talking robot": a large computer that takes up the whole room and can answer questions posed to it verbally by visitors. Although there is a man that monitors what questions are asked of it, he leaves the room when there are no guided tours and this is when Gloria enters. Gloria asks the machine if it knows where Robbie is, which she reasons the machine should know seeing as Robbie is "a robot like you." The computer is unable to comprehend that there may be another thing like it, and breaks down. Susan writes down a couple of observations and leaves, as the question-monitor returns infuriated trying to find out what happened to the machine.
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