"Three Laws"-Compliant: Difference between revisions

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Robots in ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'' are all Three Laws Compliant, at one point in ''[[GaoGaiGar]] Final'' the Carpenters (a swarm of construction robots) disassemble an incoming missile barrage, but this is given as the reason they cannot do the same to the manned assault craft, as disassembling them would leave their crews unprotected in space.

** It is possible that Goldymarg could be capable of killing people, since his AI is simply a ROM dump of Geki Hyuma's psyche, but since they only fight aliens & other robots this theory is never tested.

* ''[[Astro Boy (manga)|Astro Boy]]'', although [[Osamu Tezuka]] [[Older Than They Think|probably developed his rules independently from Asimov]]. In ''[[Pluto]]'', the number of robots able to override the laws can be counted on one hand. {{spoiler|One of them is [[Tomato in the Mirror|the protagonist]]}}.

** Tezuka reportedly disliked Asimov's laws because of the implication that a sentient, artificially intelligent robot couldn't be considered a person (an issue that Asimov didn't directly address until "[[The Bicentennial Man]]"), and devised his own Laws Of Robotics. Just one of the things that the [[Astro Boy (film)|2009 CGI movie]] missed.

* In one short arc of ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'', one of Keiichi's instructors attempts to dismantle Banpei and Sigel [[For Science!|for research purposes]] (Skuld had made them capable of walking on two legs, which he had not been able to do with his own designs). Once they escape his trap, the professor asks if they know about the Three Laws of Robotics. They don't. He doesn't die, but they do rough him up and strap him to a table in a way that makes it look like he'd been decapitated and his head stuck on one of his own robots.

* The [[Humongous Mecha]] of ''[[Kurogane no Linebarrel]]'' are normally this, aside from a slight difference in priorities between the first and second laws. In fact, this is the justification for them having pilots, despite being equipped with relatively complex AI. The Laws are hard-coded into them and thus they are only militarily useful when they have a Human with them to pull the trigger. Their aversion to killing is so great, in fact, that if one accidentally kills somebody (as things whose very footsteps can make buildings collapse are wont to do) they're compelled to use their advanced technology to bring them back to life.