Peter Wright’s Reviews > I, Robot > Status Update

Someone came in to tell Berkley about the problem at hand. The way it works is that each robot that runs these plants works together with a bunch of others, so if one breaks so do all the others. Susan says she will get back to him with what she thinks they should do.

Well Berkely was elected mayor even though he was a robot and eventually became the coordinator of the galaxy. Nowhe has a problem because even though robots run the economy and bussinesses there is a problem with supplies and buildings and stuff. Berkley has called Susan to come and see what the problem is but will she figure it out.

Gregory and Powell were assigned to test the interstellar engine that the Brain, the US Robotics company's supercomputer, built. Since the Brain is just another robot it has the personality of a syvante, and for some reason sent them on a test flight without anyone knowing. The worst part is that they don't know why and he won't tell them.

Before I tell you where I currently am in the book I want to talk about the robot that can read minds. This robot knew more than all of its makers, but it had a fatal flaw, the first law of robotics is a robot cannot cause harm. Since this robot knew of mental pain it had to lie to the people to abide by the first law. eventually the robot it stuck in a situation where he breaks the first law either way.

The two scientist were able to fix speedy but the company was so happy about their work that they sent them to test a new robot call cutie. Cutie believes that the energy condensor is god, but the scientists try to explain that he is wrong to him. Cutie eventually starts a cult saying that robots are superior to humans and that once the scientist leave it will only be the robots here.

There are two scientist trying to start a mining project on Mercury right now, but the problem is that their robot, Speedy, isn't functioning properly. They sent him to get some selenium for the power cells, but he didn't come back. They had to go back to get him with robots so old that they need to be riden like horses. Will they be able to save speedy?

Well we just saw how touching it can be to have a robot as a nurse with Gloria and robbbie. I felt so bad for the parents when Gloria thought they were going to NYC to find robie. I hope the next story is even more deep.