• • • The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or known as Asimov's Laws) are a set of rules devised by the author. The rules were introduced in his 1942 short story ' (included in the 1950 collection ), although they had been foreshadowed in a few earlier stories. The Three Laws, quoted as being from the 'Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D.'

, are: • A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. • A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. • A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. These form an organizing principle and unifying theme for Asimov's -based fiction, appearing in his, the stories linked to it, and his of. The Laws are incorporated into almost all of the appearing in his fiction, and cannot be bypassed, being intended as a safety feature. Many of Asimov's robot-focused stories involve robots behaving in unusual and counter-intuitive ways as an unintended consequence of how the robot applies the Three Laws to the situation in which it finds itself. Other authors working in Asimov's fictional universe have adopted them and references, often, appear throughout science fiction as well as in other genres.

The original laws have been altered and elaborated on by Asimov and other authors. Asimov himself made slight modifications to the first three in various books and short stories to further develop how robots would interact with humans and each other.

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In later fiction where robots had taken responsibility for government of whole planets and human civilizations, Asimov also added a fourth, or zeroth law, to precede the others: • A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. The Three Laws, and the zeroth, have pervaded science fiction and are referred to in many books, films, and other media, and have impacted thought on as well. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] In The Rest of the Robots, published in 1964, Asimov noted that when he began writing in 1940 he felt that 'one of the stock plots of science fiction was. Robots were created and destroyed their creator. Knowledge has its dangers, yes, but is the response to be a retreat from knowledge? Or is knowledge to be used as itself a barrier to the dangers it brings?'

He decided that in his stories robots would not 'turn stupidly on his creator for no purpose but to demonstrate, for one more weary time, the crime and punishment of.' On May 3, 1939, Asimov attended a meeting of the () Science Fiction Society where he met who had recently published a short story featuring a sympathetic robot named who was misunderstood and motivated by love and honor. (This was the first of a series of ten stories; the next year 'Adam Link's Vengeance' (1940) featured Adam thinking 'A robot must never kill a human, of his own free will.' ) Asimov admired the story. Three days later Asimov began writing 'my own story of a sympathetic and noble robot', his 14th story. Thirteen days later he took ' to the editor of.

Campbell rejected it claiming that it bore too strong a resemblance to 's ', published in December 1938; the story of a robot that is so much like a person that she falls in love with her creator and becomes his ideal wife. Published 'Robbie' in magazine the following year. Asimov attributes the Three Laws to John W. Campbell, from a conversation that took place on 23 December 1940. Campbell claimed that Asimov had the Three Laws already in his mind and that they simply needed to be stated explicitly.

Several years later Asimov's friend attributed the Laws to a partnership between the two men – a suggestion that Asimov adopted enthusiastically. According to his autobiographical writings Asimov included the First Law's 'inaction' clause because of 's poem 'The Latest Decalogue', which includes the satirical lines 'Thou shalt not kill, but needst not strive / officiously to keep alive'. Although Asimov pins the creation of the Three Laws on one particular date, their appearance in his literature happened over a period. He wrote two robot stories with no explicit mention of the Laws, ' and '. He assumed, however, that robots would have certain inherent safeguards. ', his third robot story, makes the first mention of the First Law but not the other two.

All three laws finally appeared together in '. When these stories and several others were compiled in the anthology, 'Reason' and 'Robbie' were updated to acknowledge all the Three Laws, though the material Asimov added to 'Reason' is not entirely consistent with the Three Laws as he described them elsewhere. In particular the idea of a robot protecting human lives when it does not believe those humans truly exist is at odds with Elijah Baley's reasoning, as described. During the 1950s Asimov wrote a series of science fiction novels expressly intended for young-adult audiences. Originally his publisher expected that the novels could be adapted into a long-running television series, something like had been for radio. Fearing that his stories would be adapted into the 'uniformly awful' programming he saw flooding the television channels Asimov decided to publish the books under the 'Paul French'. When plans for the television series fell through, Asimov decided to abandon the pretence; he brought the Three Laws into Lucky Starr and the Moons of Jupiter, noting that this 'was a dead giveaway to Paul French's identity for even the most casual reader'.

In his short story Asimov lets his recurring character expound a basis behind the Three Laws. Calvin points out that human beings are typically expected to refrain from harming other human beings (except in times of extreme duress like war, or to save a greater number) and this is equivalent to a robot's First Law. Likewise, according to Calvin, society expects individuals to obey instructions from recognized authorities such as doctors, teachers and so forth which equals the Second Law of Robotics.

Finally humans are typically expected to avoid harming themselves which is the Third Law for a robot. The plot of 'Evidence' revolves around the question of telling a human being apart from a robot constructed to appear human – Calvin reasons that if such an individual obeys the Three Laws he may be a robot or simply 'a very good man'. Another character then asks Calvin if robots are very different from human beings after all.

She replies, 'Worlds different. Robots are essentially decent.' Asimov later wrote that he should not be praised for creating the Laws, because they are 'obvious from the start, and everyone is aware of them subliminally. The Laws just never happened to be put into brief sentences until I managed to do the job.

The Laws apply, as a matter of course, to every tool that human beings use', and 'analogues of the Laws are implicit in the design of almost all tools, robotic or not': • Law 1: A tool must not be unsafe to use. Have handles and have hilts to help increase grip. It is of course possible for a person to injure himself with one of these tools, but that injury would only be due to his incompetence, not the design of the tool.

• Law 2: A tool must perform its function efficiently unless this would harm the user. This is the entire reason exist. Any running tool will have its power cut if a circuit senses that some current is not returning to the neutral wire, and hence might be flowing through the user. The safety of the user is paramount. • Law 3: A tool must remain intact during its use unless its destruction is required for its use or for safety. For example, disks are designed to be as tough as possible without breaking unless the job requires it to be spent. Furthermore, they are designed to break at a point before the shrapnel velocity could seriously injure someone (other than the eyes, though safety glasses should be worn at all times anyway).

Asimov believed that, ideally, humans would also follow the Laws: I have my answer ready whenever someone asks me if I think that my Three Laws of Robotics will actually be used to govern the behavior of robots, once they become versatile and flexible enough to be able to choose among different courses of behavior. My answer is, 'Yes, the Three Laws are the only way in which rational human beings can deal with robots—or with anything else.' —But when I say that, I always remember (sadly) that human beings are not always rational. Alterations [ ] By Asimov [ ] Asimov's stories test his Three Laws in a wide variety of circumstances leading to proposals and rejection of modifications. Science fiction scholar writes in 1982, 'The Asimov robot stories as a whole may respond best to an analysis on this basis: the ambiguity in the Three Laws and the ways in which Asimov played twenty-nine variations upon a theme'.

While the original set of Laws provided inspirations for many stories, Asimov introduced modified versions from time to time. First Law modified [ ] In ' several NS-2, or 'Nestor', robots are created with only part of the First Law. A robot may not harm a human being. This modification is motivated by a practical difficulty as robots have to work alongside human beings who are exposed to low doses of radiation. Because their are highly sensitive to the robots are rendered inoperable by doses reasonably safe for humans. The robots are being destroyed attempting to rescue the humans who are in no actual danger but 'might forget to leave' the irradiated area within the exposure time limit. Removing the First Law's 'inaction' clause solves this problem but creates the possibility of an even greater one: a robot could initiate an action that would harm a human (dropping a heavy weight and failing to catch it is the example given in the text), knowing that it was capable of preventing the harm and then decide not to do so.

Download Harry Potter 2 Sub Indonesia. Is a planet with in the which adopts a law similar to the First Law, and the Zeroth Law, as its philosophy: Gaia may not harm life or allow life to come to harm. Zeroth Law added [ ] Asimov once added a ' Law'—so named to continue the pattern where lower-numbered laws supersede the higher-numbered laws—stating that a robot must not harm humanity.

The robotic character was the first to give the Zeroth Law a name in the novel; however, the character articulates the concept in the short story '. In the final scenes of the novel Robots and Empire, is the first robot to act according to the Zeroth Law. Giskard is, like the robot Herbie in the short story ', and tries to apply the Zeroth Law through his understanding of a more subtle concept of 'harm' than most robots can grasp. However, unlike Herbie, Giskard grasps the philosophical concept of the Zeroth Law allowing him to harm individual human beings if he can do so in service to the abstract concept of humanity. The Zeroth Law is never programmed into Giskard's brain but instead is a rule he attempts to comprehend through pure. Though he fails – it ultimately destroys his positronic brain as he is not certain whether his choice will turn out to be for the ultimate good of humanity or not – he gives his successor R. Daneel Olivaw his telepathic abilities.

Over the course of many thousands of years Daneel adapts himself to be able to fully obey the Zeroth Law. As Daneel formulates it, in the novels and, the Zeroth Law reads: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

A condition stating that the Zeroth Law must not be broken was added to the original Three Laws, although Asimov recognized the difficulty such a law would pose in practice. Trevize frowned. 'How do you decide what is injurious, or not injurious, to humanity as a whole?'

'Precisely, sir,' said Daneel. 'In theory, the Zeroth Law was the answer to our problems. In practice, we could never decide. A human being is a concrete object. Injury to a person can be estimated and judged. Humanity is an abstraction.' Is an advanced developed.

Robots and artificial intelligences do not inherently contain or obey the Three Laws; their human creators must choose to program them in, and devise a means to do so. Robots already exist (for example, a ) that are too simple to understand when they are causing pain or injury and know to stop. Many are constructed with physical safeguards such as bumpers, warning beepers, safety cages, or restricted-access zones to prevent accidents. Even the most complex robots currently produced are incapable of understanding and applying the Three Laws; significant advances in artificial intelligence would be needed to do so, and even if AI could reach human-level intelligence, the inherent ethical complexity as well as cultural/contextual dependency of the laws prevent them from being a good candidate to formulate robotics design constraints. However, as the complexity of robots has increased, so has interest in developing guidelines and safeguards for their operation.

In a 2007 guest editorial in the journal on the topic of 'Robot Ethics', SF author argues that since the is a major source of funding for robotic research (and already uses armed to kill enemies) it is unlikely such laws would be built into their designs. In a separate essay, Sawyer generalizes this argument to cover other industries stating: The development of AI is a business, and businesses are notoriously uninterested in fundamental safeguards — especially philosophic ones. (A few quick examples: the tobacco industry, the automotive industry, the nuclear industry. Not one of these has said from the outset that fundamental safeguards are necessary, every one of them has resisted externally imposed safeguards, and none has accepted an absolute edict against ever causing harm to humans.) has suggested a tongue-in-cheek set of laws: • A robot will not harm authorized Government personnel but will.

• A robot will obey the orders of authorized personnel except where such orders conflict with the Third Law. • A robot will guard its own existence with lethal antipersonnel weaponry, because a robot is bloody expensive. Roger Clarke (aka Rodger Clarke) wrote a pair of papers analyzing the complications in implementing these laws in the event that systems were someday capable of employing them.

He argued 'Asimov's Laws of Robotics have been a very successful literary device. Perhaps ironically, or perhaps because it was artistically appropriate, the sum of Asimov's stories disprove the contention that he began with: It is not possible to reliably constrain the behaviour of robots by devising and applying a set of rules.' On the other hand, Asimov's later novels, and imply that the robots inflicted their worst long-term harm by obeying the Three Laws perfectly well, thereby depriving humanity of inventive or risk-taking behaviour. In March 2007 the government announced that later in the year it would issue a 'Robot Ethics Charter' setting standards for both users and manufacturers. According to Park Hye-Young of the Ministry of Information and Communication the Charter may reflect Asimov's Three Laws, attempting to set ground rules for the future development of robotics.

The futurist (a prominent figure in the movement) proposed that the Laws of Robotics should be adapted to 'corporate intelligences' — the driven by AI and robotic manufacturing power which Moravec believes will arise in the near future. In contrast, the novel (1999) suggests that the Three Laws may decay into obsolescence: Robots use the Zeroth Law to rationalize away the First Law and robots hide themselves from human beings so that the Second Law never comes into play. Brin even portrays worrying that, should robots continue to reproduce themselves, the Three Laws would become an evolutionary handicap and would sweep the Laws away — Asimov's careful foundation undone. Although the robots would not be evolving through design instead of mutation because the robots would have to follow the Three Laws while designing and the prevalence of the laws would be ensured, design flaws or construction errors could functionally take the place of biological mutation.

In the July/August 2009 issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems, Robin Murphy (Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M) and David D. Woods (director of the Cognitive Systems Engineering Laboratory at Ohio State) proposed 'The Three Laws of Responsible Robotics' as a way to stimulate discussion about the role of responsibility and authority when designing not only a single robotic platform but the larger system in which the platform operates. The laws are as follows: • A human may not deploy a robot without the human-robot work system meeting the highest legal and professional standards of safety and ethics. • A robot must respond to humans as appropriate for their roles. • A robot must be endowed with sufficient situated autonomy to protect its own existence as long as such protection provides smooth transfer of control which does not conflict with the First and Second Laws. Woods said, 'Our laws are little more realistic, and therefore a little more boring” and that 'The philosophy has been, ‘sure, people make mistakes, but robots will be better – a perfect version of ourselves.’ We wanted to write three new laws to get people thinking about the human-robot relationship in more realistic, grounded ways.'

In October 2013, Alan Winfield suggested at an EUCog meeting a revised 5 laws that had been published, with commentary, by the EPSRC/AHRC working group in 2010.: • Robots are multi-use tools. Robots should not be designed solely or primarily to kill or harm humans, except in the interests of national security. • Humans, not Robots, are responsible agents.

Robots should be designed and operated as far as practicable to comply with existing laws, fundamental rights and freedoms, including privacy. • Robots are products. They should be designed using processes which assure their safety and security. • Robots are manufactured artefacts. They should not be designed in a deceptive way to exploit vulnerable users; instead their machine nature should be transparent. • The person with legal responsibility for a robot should be attributed. Other occurrences in media [ ].

NDR-114 explaining the Three Laws Isaac Asimov's works have been adapted for cinema several times with varying degrees of critical and commercial success. Some of the more notable attempts have involved his 'Robot' stories, including the Three Laws. The film (1999) features as the Three Laws robot NDR-114 (the serial number is partially a reference to 's ).

Williams recites the Three Laws to his employers, the Martin family, aided by a holographic projection. However, the Laws were not the central focus of the film which only loosely follows the original story and has the second half introducing a love interest not present in Asimov's original short story. 's proposed screenplay for began by introducing the Three Laws, and issues growing from the Three Laws form a large part of the screenplay's plot development. This is only natural since Ellison's screenplay is one inspired by: a frame story surrounding four of Asimov's short-story plots and three taken from the book itself. Ellison's adaptations of these four stories are relatively faithful although he magnifies 's role in two of them.

Due to various complications in the Hollywood moviemaking system, to which Ellison's introduction devotes much invective, his screenplay was never filmed. In the 1986 movie, in a scene after the android accidentally cuts himself during the, he attempts to reassure by stating that: 'It is impossible for me to harm or by omission of action, allow to be harmed, a human being'.

By contrast, in the 1979 movie from the same series,, the human crew of a starship infiltrated by a hostile alien are informed by the android that his instructions are: 'Return alien life form, all other priorities rescinded', illustrating how the laws governing behaviour around human safety can be rescinded by Executive Order. In the 1987 film and its sequels, the partially human main character has been programmed with three 'prime directives' that he must obey without question. Even if different in letter and spirit they have some similarities with Asimov's Three Laws. They are: • Serve the Public Trust • Protect the Innocent • Uphold the Law • Classified These particular laws allow Robocop to harm a human being in order to protect another human, fulfilling his role as would a human law enforcement officer.

The classified fourth directive is one that forbids him from harming any OCP employee, as OCP had created him, and this command overrides the others, meaning that he could not cause harm to an employee even in order to protect others. The plot of the film released in 2004 under the name, is 'suggested by' Asimov's robot fiction stories and advertising for the film included a trailer featuring the Three Laws followed by the, 'Rules were made to be broken'.

The film opens with a recitation of the Three Laws and explores the implications of the as a logical extrapolation. The major conflict of the film comes from a computer artificial intelligence, similar to the hivemind world Gaia in the, reaching the conclusion that humanity is incapable of taking care of itself.

Criticisms [ ] Philosopher says that if applied thoroughly they would produce unexpected results. He gives the example of a robot roaming the world trying to prevent harm from all humans., President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and Professor of Information Privacy Law at Georgetown Law, argues that the Laws of Robotics should be expanded to include two new laws: • a Fourth Law, under which a Robot must be able to identify itself to the public ('symmetrical identification') • a Fifth Law, dictating that a Robot must be able to explain to the public its decision making process ('algorithmic transparency').

See also [ ]. • • • • • • • – a theory which states that, rather than using 'Laws', intelligent machines should be programmed to be inherently, and then to use their own best judgement in how to carry out this altruism, thus sidestepping the problem of how to account for a vast number of unforeseeable eventualities.

• which may be designed such that they violate Asimov's First Law. • • • Bibliography [ ] • Asimov, Isaac (1979). In Memory Yet Green. Mercurius Homeopathic Software Crack Website. • Asimov, Isaac (1964). The Rest of the Robots.

• James Gunn. Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction. Oxford u.a.: Oxford Univ.

• Patrouch, Joseph F. The Science Fiction of Isaac Asimov. References [ ].

The second edition of this handbook provides a state-of-the-art cover view on the various aspects in the rapidly developing field of robotics. Reaching for the human frontier, robotics is vigorously engaged in the growing challenges of new emerging domains. Interacting, exploring, and working with humans, the new generation of robots will increasingly touch people and their lives. The credible prospect of practical robots among humans is the result of the scientific endeavour of a half a century of robotic developments that established robotics as a modern scientific discipline. The ongoing vibrant expansion and strong growth of the field during the last decade has fueled this second edition of the Springer Handbook of Robotics. The first edition of the handbook soon became a landmark in robotics publishing and won the American Association of Publishers PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics as well as the organization’s Award for Engineering & Technology. The second edition of the handbook, edited by two internationally renowned scientists with the support of an outstanding team of seven part editors and more than 200 authors, continues to be an authoritative reference for robotics researchers, newcomers to the field, and scholars from related disciplines. The contents have been restructured to achieve four main objectives: the enlargement of foundational topics for robotics, the enlightenment of design of various types of robotic systems, the extension of the treatment on robots moving in the environment, and the enrichment of advanced robotics applications.

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His research focuses on methodologies and technologies in industrial and service robotics including force and visual control, cooperative robots, human-robot interaction, and aerial manipulation. He has co-authored 6 books and over 300 journal papers, conference papers and book chapters. He has delivered over 20 keynote presentations and over 100 colloquia and seminars at institutions around the world. He is a Fellow of IEEE, ASME and IFAC. He is Co-Editor of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) series and the Springer Handbook of Robotics, which received the PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics and was also the winner in the category Engineering & Technology. He has served on the Editorial Boards of prestigious journals, as well as Chair or Co-Chair for numerous international conferences.

Professor Siciliano is the Past-President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS). He has been the recipient of several awards, including the IEEE RAS George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation and the IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award.

Oussama Khatib received his Doctorate degree in Electrical Engineering from Sup’Aero, Toulouse, France, in 1980. He is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research focuses on methodologies and technologies in human-centered robotics including humanoid control architectures, human motion synthesis, interactive dynamic simulation, haptics, and human-friendly robot design. He has co-authored over 300 journal papers, conference papers and book chapters. He has delivered over 100 keynote presentations and several hundreds of colloquia and seminars at institutions around the world. He is a Fellow of IEEE. He is Co-Editor of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) series and the Springer Handbook of Robotics, which received the PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics and was also the winner in the category Engineering & Technology.

He has served on the Editorial Boards of prestigious journals, as well as Chair or Co-Chair for numerous international conferences. Professor Khatib is the President of the International Foundation of Robotics Research. He has been the recipient of several awards, including the IEEE RAS Pioneer Award in Robotics and Automation, the IEEE RAS George Saridis Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation, the IEEE RAS Distinguished Service Award, and the Japan Robot Association (JARA) Award in Research and Development.