In the canon
Runaround
- Form
- Form Short Story
- Year
- Year 1942
- Pages
- Pages 12
Under the white blaze of Mercury's Sunside, a robot named Speedy reels in a great circle around a pool of selenium, lurching like a drunk and warbling Gilbert and Sullivan into his handlers' earphones. Two engineers, roasting as their heat shields fail, cannot understand why the machine will not simply come home.
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.