. . . "The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or Three Laws, also known as Asimov's Laws) are a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov. The rules were introduced in his 1942 short story \"Runaround\", although they had been foreshadowed in a few earlier stories. The Three Laws, quoted as being from the \"Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D.\", are: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."@en .