Thinking Robots . . .

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

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

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

Isaac Asimov, Robot Visions (New York: Penguin Books, 1990), 407.