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. 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'')