I, ROBOT (RUNAROUND) - Post #2

Passage:
" Powell's radio voice was tense in Donovan's ear: ' Now, look, let's start with the three fundamental Rules of Robotics-the three rules that are built most deeply into a robot's positronic brain.'  In the darkness, his gloved fingers ticked off each point.
'We have: One, a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.'
'Right!'
'Two,' continued Powell, 'a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.'
'Right!'
'And three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.' " ( Pg. 37)

Response:
This quote is from the second chapter of I, ROBOT, shows Powell explaining the three rules that set into the robot's memory, they discuss how why they set those rules. I have think over how the creators set up the robot's mind could affect to every single person and the world if there are robots every where like book says. The rules are make for every robot that created to make sure the robot listen to the owner, and protect itself, but anything the robots do can not hurt the human. And I think those three rules answered my question on the first post which was about how the robot will treat us if there are robots in the future.


Analysis:
In this chapter I think Isaac Asimov wanted to tell us what the scientist making batter for robot life, and he also pointed out how the robot creators set the robot up while they building it. And I think his main point of this chapter is describe why they need those rules for robot if the world have the mixed of human and robot. The first few page of this chapter were hard to understand because Isaac Asimov added some of the science stuff into the story, but I think he has achieved his purpose with how the robot creators add rules for robot because that could help the curious of readers about how the robot will treat human.