![]() Asimov based the positron and brain concept on the discovery of particles known as positrons just prior to his writing. However, Asimov didn't read the terms "positronic" to describe the robot brain and robotics to describe the field. The word robot had been used long before the 1940s, having been used by Karel Capek in his play R.U.R. This essay will examine I, Robot, analyzing its plot, characters and overall theme. Thus, through Susan Calvin's memories we can review the entire history of robotics in Isaac Asimov's universe. ![]() Moreover, in order to tie them all together when they were published as a collection, Asimov created a frame story that explained all of these stories as memories of Susan Calvin that are being related to an interviewer. While the short stories as originally written had no single-story thread, these stories did all exist in a common universe and on occasion characters from one story will show up in one of the other stories, such as robopsychologist Susan Calvin or other less important characters like Powell or Donovan. ![]() These are all stories related to the concept of robotics, and in particular highly advanced and intelligent robots. I, Robot is a collection of short stories by Isaac Asimov written in the 40s and published as a collection in 1950. ![]()
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