ABSTRACT
The movie I, Robot starts with a fascinating scene. The camera slowly zooms in on a busy shopping street in Chicago in the year 2035. Slowly you realize that robots are walking among the shoppers. They are humanoid machines that provide public services. The robots take dogs out for walks, collect trash, and have a relaxed chat with the neighbors. These intelligent machines seem totally integrated into society. They are trusted. The basis of that public trust lies in the fact that robots act according to the three laws of Asimov (see Box 1.1), who wrote a number of short science fiction stories in 1950 under the title I, Robot. These robots are not just smart and handy, they are also moral machines. And then, of course, suddenly something goes very wrong.
