Editing Robot series (section)

=== Overview of short stories ===
Most of Asimov's [[robot]] short stories, which he began to write in 1939, are set in the first age of positronic robotics and space exploration. The unique feature of Asimov's robots is the [[Three Laws of Robotics]], hardwired in a robot's [[positronic brain]], with which all robots in his fiction must comply, and which ensure that the robot does not turn against its creators.

The stories were not initially conceived as a set, but rather all feature his positronic robots. They all share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots, and morality. Some of the short stories found in ''[[The Complete Robot]]'' (1982) and other anthologies appear not to be set in the same universe as the [[Foundation universe|''Foundation'' universe]]. "[[Victory Unintentional]]" has positronic robots obeying the Three Laws, but also a non-human civilization on Jupiter. "[[Let's Get Together (short story)|Let's Get Together]]" features humanoid robots, but from a different future (where the [[Cold War]] is still in progress), and with no mention of the Three Laws. {{Anchor|corp}}Some characters appear in more than one of the stories, and the manufacturer of the robots is often identified as the (fictional) corporation ''U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men''.

''[[The Complete Robot]]'' contains most of Asimov's robot short stories. Missing ones were either written after its publication or formed the text connecting the stories in ''[[I, Robot]]''.

The six Asimov robot short stories not included in this book are:
* "[[Robot Dreams (Asimov short story)|Robot Dreams]]" (found in the [[Robot Dreams (short story collection)|anthology of the same title]])
* "[[Robot Visions]]" (found in the anthology of the same title)
* "Too Bad!" (found in ''[[Robot Visions]]'')
* "Christmas Without Rodney" (found in ''Robot Visions'')
* "[[Cal (short story)|Cal]]" (found in ''[[Gold (Asimov)|Gold]]'')
* "Kid Brother" (found in ''Gold'')