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confused robot. It was built to work in the mines of the airless moon with a disintegrator (called a Disinto). Somehow it gets lost on Earth and makes a Disinto out of scrap and two flashlight batteries, only to be told by a frightened human to destroy it and forget about it completely. AL-76 is confused, but not as confused as the people who are afraid of him.
"Victory Unintentional," Super Science Stories, August 1942, is a sequel to "Not Final!" an Astounding story that presented the threat of a teeming, xenophobic civilization on Jupiter. In "Victory Unintentional" a robot expedition lands on Jupiter. The robots are taken by the Jovians to be humans and prove so superior to the Jovians that the Jovian superiority complex crumbles.
"First Law," Fantastic Universe, October 1946, is a casual short-short and a tall tale about a robot (of the MA series) that breaks the First Law because it is a mother, and mother love supersedes every other law.
"Let's Get Together," Infinity, February 1957, describes a stalemate between East and West that is unbalanced by a report that the East has developed a superior ability to manufacture humanoid robots. Ten of them reportedly are in the U.S. carrying fragments of a TC (total conversion) bomb. A big scientific conference is to consider the problem, but as the scientists are gathering, the Chief of the Bureau of Robotics decides that the meeting is the means for bringing the humanoids together and wiping out the scientific minds of the West.
"Satisfaction Guaranteed," Amazing, April 1951, is a story that might have qualified for I, Robot. In an attempt to make robots acceptable on Earth (and in the home), USR makes TN-3 ("Tony"), "a tall and darkly handsome" humanoid. It turns out to be a perfect household servant, not only helpful but creative, redecorating the house and the mistress of the house. By seeming to fall in love with her, Tony also restores her sense of adequacy. Susan Calvin comments that "machines can't fall in love, but even when it's hopeless and horrifying women can."
"Risk," Astounding, May 1955, returns to the scene of "Little Lost Robot," Hyper Base, where the search for a hyper-space interstellar drive has achieved success except that animals come back mindless. A robot is placed in an experimental ship, but at the appointed time nothing happens. Over strenuous objections, Susan Calvin sends a man to investigate rather than a robot. He discovers that the robot, instructed only to pull the control bar firmly toward him, pulled it with robot strength and bent it. The point of the story, however, is that a man was sent rather than a robot, not because human life is valued less but because a robot can't be useful unless it can be given precise orders. It

 
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