Robot Short Story

[Nelson]

A short story, or maybe an excerpt from a book. Thought it was pretty famous since we read it in school, but can’t find it now.
It is a brief episode where there is a robot, I think on a space station, and he is exploring space or something like that. He ends up coming across a human, who I think is unconscious. The robot is very confused by the human and starts operating on him to try and understand what’s wrong. The robot treats the human like a robot, so from that perspective he is doing surgery on the human to “fix” him; the dramatic irony from the reader’s perspective is that we know how humans work, and the robot is absolutely killing the man and possibly also mutilating his body.
It was pretty short because we read it in class, but again it might’ve just been an excerpt from a larger text. I remember also reading it online after the fact, but can’t find it now :(
Thank you!!

[Becca]

'Men Are Different' by Alan Bloch? It appears in 50 Short Science Fiction Tales but might also be in other anthologies. This is the final paragraph:

One day, for no reason at all, he complained of the heat. I checked his temperature and decided that his thermostat circuits were shot. I had a kit of field spares with me, and he was obviously out of order, so I went to work. I turned him off without any trouble. I pushed the needle into his neck to operate the cut-off switch, and he stopped moving, just like a Robot. But when I opened him up he wasn't the same inside. And when I put him back together I couldn't get him running again. Then he sort of weathered away—and by the time I was ready to come home, about a year later, there was nothing left of him but bones. Yes, Men are indeed different.

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