Editing Robot series (section)

==Inspiration==
One source of inspiration for Asimov's robots was the Zoromes, a race of mechanical men that featured in a 1931 short story called "The Jameson Satellite", by [[Neil R. Jones]]. Asimov read this story at the age of 11, and acknowledged it as a source of inspiration in ''[[Before the Golden Age]]'' (1975), an anthology of 1930's science fiction in which Asimov told the story of the science fiction he read during his formative years. In Asimov's own words:

<blockquote>It is from the Zoromes, beginning with their first appearance in "The Jameson Satellite," that I got my own feeling for benevolent robots who could serve man with decency, as these had served Professor Jameson. It was the Zoromes, then, who were the spiritual ancestors of my own "[[positronic brain|positronic]] robots," all of them, from [[Robbie (short story)|Robbie]] to [[R. Daneel Olivaw|R. Daneel]].<ref name="golden-age">{{cite book
| title = Before the Golden Age 1
| last = Asimov
| first = Isaac
| author-link = Isaac Asimov
| year = 1975
| publisher = Orbit
| page = 65
| isbn = 0-86007-803-5
}}</ref></blockquote>