roboticsn.

1941 I. Asimov in Astounding Sci.-Fiction May 53 There's irony in three of the greatest experts in robotics in the world falling into the same elementary trap, isn't there?

1963 Worlds of Tomorrow Dec. 66/1 In business hours his time as a robotics engineer, 1st class, was far too valuable for him even to cast a passing glance at any mechanism as elementary as that of a robovalet.

1968 Times 1 Nov. 23/2 Significant technological advances in the field of ‘robotics’—the use of robots in the field of industrial automation—were announced today.

1980 Times 18 Feb. (Computer Suppl.) p. viii/8 Now revived by government and private capital, British interest in robotics and artificial intelligence is nevertheless still feeding off the impetus from overseas work.

1993 L. Chunovic Chris-in-the-Morning 28 Artificial intelligence, robotics, bio-implants... Not only are we making smart machines, we're becoming smart machines.

2009 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 Apr. w2/1 Trying to create ‘personality’ in robots is a budding field... ‘Social robotics’..can improve human-machine interactions.

1981 Times 10 Mar. 4/1 Will he consider direct grants for the purchase of such robotics?

1987 T. Forester High-tech Society (1989) iii. 67 VLSI production is also highly automated, with increasing use of automatic test equipment..and robotics.

1996 E. L. Harry Society of Mind ii. 56 We use retinal chips in the robotics instead of cameras.

2001 New Scientist 24 Mar. 90/2 (advt.) The laboratory services (e.g. colony picking, arraying, DNA sequencing) are provided using the Genetix range of robotics.

1941 I. Asimov in Astounding Sci. Fiction May 53/2 ‘You know the fundamental law impressed upon the positronic brain of all robots, of course.’... ‘Certainly... On no conditions is a human being to be injured in any way, even when such injury is directly ordered by another human.’

1942 I. Asimov in Astounding Sci.-Fiction Mar. 100/1 Let's start with the three fundamental rules of Robotics—the three rules that are built most deeply into a robot's positronic brain.]

1944 I. Asimov in Astounding Sci. Fiction Feb. 165/2 If your analysis were correct, Dave would have to break down the First Law of Robotics: That a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to be injured.

1950 I. Asimov I, Robot p. ix (heading) The three laws of robotics.

1968 I. Asimov in Sci. Jrnl. Oct. 116/2 Eventually, I formulated these safeguards in the shape of ‘The Three Laws of Robotics’. 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 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, except where such protection would conflict with the First or Second Law.

1974 G. Butler Coffin for Canary viii. 100 Perhaps we are robots. Robots acting out the last Law of Robotics... To tend towards the human.

1984 Statistician 33 355 Fox..calls this the ‘Principle of Cognitive Emulation’ (and remarks that it has also been called the Fourth Law of Robotics!).

1990 New Scientist 13 Oct. 54/3 Time for a new law of robotics: A robot shall not leave a project skint, or by inaction cause it to be skint.

2001 M. K. Booker Monsters, Mushroom Clouds, & Cold War i. 32 Asimov's famed Laws of Robotics presumably ensured the benevolent nature of his robots.