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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