gan" (Asimov "Introduction"). They accept the three laws because those laws are built into their circuitry, though from time to time they are faced with a dilemma as certain of the laws conflict with one another. This can cause great anguish for the robot, as in the case of Speedy in "Runaround" as the human beings try to find a way to get the robot to work around rules 2 and 3, which they do by invoking rule 1 (Asimov 51-52). Asimov's robots do have human feelings, however, and often react out of human emotions, as in "E
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