The Complete Robot Author:Isaac Asimov It was Isaac Asimov who coined the word "robotics" almost forty years ago. In The Complete Robot's 31 stories you'll meet Robbie, the faithful nursemaid, and Tony, whose thoughtful and considerate attentions to a lonely wife provoke an all-to-human response. There are robots who do not behave as they were designed to, robots who obey their iridi... more »um brains all too literally, and robots who aspire to humanity. And then there are the humans: Mike Donovan & Greg Powell, the field testers for experimental models: Peter Bogart, Alfred Lanning, Gerald Black, and the rest of the U.S. Robots & Mechanical Men research & development staff -- and especially the company's chief robot-psychologist, the steely Dr. Susan Calvin.« less