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The Three Laws of Robotics:<\/p>\n

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.<\/p>\n

2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.<\/p>\n

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.<\/p>\n

THE MESSAGE REACHED EARTH AS A SET OF SHORTWAVE pulses. A communications satellite relayed it, along with hundreds more, to a groundside clearing station. Since it designated itself private, the station passed it directly on to its recipient, the global headquarters of the United States Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation. There a computer programmed with its highly secret code converted digital signals to sight and sound. An image leaped into being, so three-dimensionally complete that startlement brought a gasp from Henry Matsumoto.<\/p>\n

The robot shown was no surprise\u2014humanoid but large, bulkily armored, intended for hard labor under tricky conditions. The background, though, was spectacular. Nothing blocked that from view but a couple of structural members. Needing no air, drink, food, little of anything except infrequent refuelings, robots when by themselves traveled in spacecraft quite accurately describable as \u201cbarebones. \u201c At one edge of the screen, a slice of Jupiter\u2019s disc glowed huge, its tawniness swirled with clouds and spotted with storms that could have swallowed Earth whole. Near the lower edge was a glimpse of Io. The sights flitted swiftly past, for the ship was in close orbit around the moon, but the plume of one volcanic outburst upon it dominated the desolation for just this instant, geyserlike above a furious sulfury spout.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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