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Mark W. Tilden created his Laws of Robotics as a response to Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics.^[1] They are as follows:

1. A robot must protect its existence at all costs.


2. A robot must obtain and maintain access to its own power source.


3. A robot must continually search for better power sources.

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This cover of I, Robot illustrates the story "Runaround," the first to list all Three Laws of Robotics.

In science fiction, the Three Laws of Robotics are a set of three rules written by Isaac Asimov, which almost all positronic robots appearing in his fiction must obey. Introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround," although foreshadowed in a few earlier stories, the Laws state the following:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.


2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.


3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Later, Asimov added the Zeroth Law: "A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm"; the rest of the laws are modified sequentially to acknowledge this.