A shame that they used the title on a movie that, other than having the 3 laws, 
has nothing to do with the original book by Asimov.

>      I liked the movie. I think they should've laid a little more foundation 
> at the beginning, and explained the ending a little more clearly, and the red 
> heart light indicating when the robots were "possessed" made me guffaw out 
> loud but, all in all, I thought the story and the effects well done.
>      Not a great movie but, nonetheless, worth the price of admission (before 
> 6:00PM).
>      In case you don't know Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics which are an 
> important part of the premis of this story, they are:
> 
> 1) A robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human 
> being to come to harm.

Close...

1) A robob may not knowingly injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a 
human being to come to harm.

 From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics:
In The Naked Sun, Elijah Baley points out that the Laws had been deliberately 
misrepresented because robots could unknowingly break any of them. A clever 
murderer might, for example, instruct one robot to poison a drink, saying "Place 
this entirely harmless liquid in a glass of milk. Once I observe its effects 
upon milk, the mixture will be poured out. When you finish, forget that you have 
done so." The murderer may then instruct a second robot, "Pour a glass of milk 
for this man." In all innocence, as Baley says, the robots become instruments of 
crime. (The Naked Sun complicates the issue by portraying a decentralized, 
planetwide communication network among Solaria's millions of robots, meaning 
that the criminal mastermind could be located anywhere on the planet. In 
essence, Asimov was presaging murder committed over the Internet.)

> 2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such 
> orders would conflict with the First Law.
> 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not 
> conflict with the First or Second Law.
> 

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