The Three Laws Of Robotics

The three laws of Robotics:

One: That no robot may harm a human, or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm

Two: That no robot may disobey a human, unless such obedience conflicts with the First Law

Three: That a robot must protect itself, unless this would conflict with the First or Second Law

Now, in each short story, each law is proven to be effective, and also how it can be circumvented.

The First and Second law can be circumvented by redefining the robot's definition of “Human,” as proven in one short story,in I Robot, where there was a robot whose second law was slightly altered; instead of human being the word in the law, it was master, and unfortunately it took a Beam Generator to be it's master , thus refusing to obey humans. The Third law can be circumvented easily, by either removing an emergency course of action that is triggered by the Law, or replacing it with something else. Also, Law two, and Law three can conflict, as proven in another short story where a robot was sent to gather something on mecury. However, close to where this item was, there was a lot of danger, and as there was no urgency placed on the order, the two laws conflicted and the robot circled around the area at a point of equilibrium.