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Written by Isaac Asimov
A short story in the Robot Stories Of Isaac Asimov series
Cover Notes
A Mike Donovan and Greg Powell story.
Powell and Donovan are now in charge of field tests of an asteroid mining robot, and for some reason if they don't watch the robot it comes back empty. The robot has subsidiary robots under its control, and when they secretly observe the robot it starts going on absurd marches and dances with its subsidiaries whenever something unexpected happens.
Here, Asimov anthropomorphises by having a robot "twiddle its thumbs" when it can't think of what to do.
Publication History
This story is contained in:
- Astounding Science Fiction magazine edited by John W Campbell - published February, 1944 by Street And Smith
- I Robot by Isaac Asimov - published December, 1950 by Gnome
Categories: Authors Isaac Asimov | Series Robot Stories Of Isaac Asimov | Published 1944
