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Unfortunately, the laws won. Darn you robotic programming!

Rarely do you see a robot with such snazzy boots. Well done, Mr. Zettwoch.

Thoroughly confused.

For the uninitiated:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law

They eat old people's medicine for fuel.

Once they grab you with those metal claws you can't break free, because they are made of metal, and robots are strong.

I would have posted the laws, but it seems like everyone else has already done it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

In science fiction, the Three Laws of Robotics are a set of three rules written by Isaac Asimov, which almost all positronic robots appearing in his fiction must obey. Introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround", although foreshadowed in a few earlier stories, the Laws state the following:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Edit: someone beat me to it

Alternate time to wear this shirt: When the metal ones come for you, and they will.

Why do you people think Isaac Asimov corners the market on "The Robotic Laws"?

I hate the shirt, by the way. Its a visual explosion

heh - clever. love the asimov reference.

I thought he already killed the bossy human. Perhaps everyone is bald and has beards in the future.

i'm not sure if this has been said yet, but the laws are as follows.... (just kidding BTW)

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

2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

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

looks like he's about to shoot the sheriff

This shirt would probably be good for the planet of robots in Futurama, if they wore clothes.

KaylaJ wrote:looks like he's about to shoot the sheriff

He may have shot the sheriff, but he didn't shoot the deputy.

Oh man, this made me laugh out loud. Excellent joke and art

So in this case, he fought the law, but the law didn't win...bad robot!

tonysterrett wrote:He may have shot the sheriff, but he didn't shoot the deputy.

Hmmm...using the laws of Bacon (Kevin, that is), that's the Bob Marley song Will Smith was singing in I Am Legend. Will Smith also was in I, Robot, a movie about Asimov's laws. Coincidence? I think not.

Thus, I come to the conclusion that the robots are already subliminally affecting our minds through this shirt.

Love the style; worried that the attitude might spread...

The boots and the depiction of Law 3 being broken (or more exact, the very provocative way in which the robot is standing against the wall) has allowed me to deduce: This is a female robot!

This shirt is subliminally empowering women's rights (be they human or robotic). I can dig it!

I need a new shirt. I will wear this when I am picking street fights in my leather jacket. It may also come in handy for wooing those Asimov groupies.

Now, if only we had a Foundation shirt...

P.S. Woot, if you have a sansa charging cable on the floor near my shirt order, please toss it in the package! I have two awesome Sansas that I have yet to use... they are orphaned with no charge/transfer cable :_(

I like it. In for one.

I like how the robot seems to be rockin' old school tmnt kneepads..

Cool video, wish I could have been there!

makes me wanna break out my scifi novel collection

aoviss wrote:Why do you people think Isaac Asimov corners the market on "The Robotic Laws"?

I hate the shirt, by the way. Its a visual explosion

Umm... well, I suppose it is because Isaac Asimov is the one who wrote and made famous the "Three Laws of Robotics" referenced on the shirt (and in several other posts).

Shouldn't the third picture be of the robot with a gun to it's head, or jumping off a cliff or something?

Edit: I suppose the robot is smoking in the second picture; fair enough.

Easily the best joke on the page was "Don’t wear this shirt: In front of your Roomba. You don’t want that guy getting ideas."

I still have a picture of an iRobot Roomba box that I sent to a friend along with the caption "The sequel?"

RetepAdam wrote:Easily the best joke on the page was "Don’t wear this shirt: In front of your Roomba. You don’t want that guy getting ideas."

I still have a picture of an iRobot Roomba box that I sent to a friend along with the caption "The sequel?"

Roombas are soooo cute :D

That robot has some serious bug-eye going on. I like it.

If the third law is to protect itself, and the robot is contradicting the laws of robotics, wouldn't it make more sense if the robot was hanging itself or something?

This shirt is incomplete, and forgets the 0th law of robotics.

0th law:
"A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm"

bassanimation wrote:I like how the robot seems to be rockin' old school tmnt kneepads..

Cool video, wish I could have been there!

Wow loving these funny posts!!!! how about them Tighty whiteys?

I'm pretty sure there were at least two other analog derbies.

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Having met and talked to Asimov a long time ago, I am sure he'd approve. He always had a bent sense of humor.

weasalbalwarrior wrote:If the third law is to protect itself, and the robot is contradicting the laws of robotics, wouldn't it make more sense if the robot was hanging itself or something?

The third law is to protect oneself, UNLESS that contradicts one of the first two laws.

He's obviously running from the cops and thus, Humans are telling him to stop/surrender.

He's protecting himself, IN SPITE of the fact that he's 1) Hurting humans (smoking gun) and 2) Disobeying orders from humans (fleeing from the cops)

It's a very acceptible breaking of law three in two different ways at once. I would've been very disappointed if he just hung himself... also, if he did, you couldn't tell if a human told him to, just from the panel. This one is obvious that he's breaking it, without MUCH of a leap.

I really, really, really like the concept of this shirt. I would definitely like to own a shirt like this one - Asimov is literally my favorite author and there is very little that interests me more than robots. That said, the execution on this shirt just ruins it for me. It's just too chaotic, and the actual message and concept just gets lost in the tornado of metal on the shirt. I like the style of the art and the robot himself looks totally wicked, but there's just too much going on to hold my attention. Plus, for the third law, he's hiding around a corner? Isn't laying low somehow protecting his own existence? Shouldn't he be charging at the cops, guns blazing? Or jumping off a rooftop to his death?

Maybe I'm nitpicking because I like Asimov too much. I want to push the button on this shirt because I want to own one like it... But I can't.

EDIT: Also, because after reading through this thread it seems like not as many people read Asimov as they should - If you think you like Asimov but have not yet read "The Last Question", I cannot more strongly recommend it. It is literally the best short story I have ever read in my life. It's a 15 minute read and is available in full on the internet. Please search for it and read it. You will not be sorry!

er...uh...i don't get it