I Robot is a progressive rock album recorded by The Alan Parsons Project, engineered by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson in 1977. It was released by Arista Records in 1977 and re-released on CD in 1984 and 2007. It was intended to be based on the I, Robot stories written by Isaac Asimov, and actually Woolfson spoke with Asimov, who was enthusiastic about that. But the rights had already been granted to a TV/movie company, so the album's title was altered slightly by removing the comma, and the theme and lyrics were made to be more generically about robots rather than specific to the Asimov universe.^[1]

The cover inlay reads: "I ROBOT... THE STORY OF THE RISE OF THE MACHINE AND THE DECLINE OF MAN, WHICH PARADOXICALLY COINCIDED WITH HIS DISCOVERY OF THE WHEEL... AND A WARNING THAT HIS BRIEF DOMINANCE OF THIS PLANET WILL PROBABLY END, BECAUSE MAN TRIED TO CREATE ROBOT IN HIS OWN IMAGE."

The title of the final track, "Genesis Ch.1 v.32", follows this theme by implying a continuation to the story of Creation, since the first chapter of Genesis only has 31 verses. The track "Don't Let it Show" was later covered by Pat Benatar on her album In the Heat of the Night.

I Robot has been reissued multiple times in various formats since its initial release on vinyl including numerous audiophile releases.

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) released the album on standard vinyl (MFSL 1-084), UHQR vinyl (MFQR 1-084), and on aluminum CD (MFCD-1-804). Classic Records has released the album in analog form on 180 Gram Vinyl, as well as digitally on HDAD (24bit/192 kHz & 24bit/96 kHz DVD-Audio).

In 2007, as part of a larger campaign, Sony released a remastered version along with bonus tracks on CD.

Don't Let It Show begins with an organ, and then the singing begins. The drums and bass come in before the start of the second verse. After its verses and choruses, it goes into a keyboard riff coda as the drums pick up, and then it fades. The song has two segments. The first segment has Dave Townsend's vocal and in sung and played in the key of D. The second segment is the instrumental coda, which modulates to Bb. Then, it goes up to C as the tempo increases, and then back up to D. The first half of the song is a slow moving ballad while the second half is more up-tempo. The interlude at the end of the song is accompanied by string and brass instruments.^[2]

All tracks written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson; except "Total Eclipse" written by Andrew Powell

1. "I Robot" (instrumental) – 6:02
2. "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" (lead vocal: Lenny Zakatek) – 3:22
3. "Some Other Time" (lead vocals: Peter Straker & Jaki Whitren) – 4:06
4. "Breakdown" (lead vocal: Allan Clarke) – 3:50
5. "Don't Let It Show" (lead vocal: Dave Townsend) – 4:24

1. "The Voice" (lead vocal: Steve Harley) – 5:24
2. "Nucleus" (instrumental) – 3:31
3. "Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)" (lead vocal: Jack Harris) – 3:49
4. "Total Eclipse" (instrumental) – 3:09
5. "Genesis Ch.1 v.32" (instrumental) – 3:28

11. "Boules" (I Robot experiment) – 1:59
12. "Breakdown" (early demo of backing riff) – 2:09
13. "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" (backing track rough mix) – 3:28
14. "Day After Day" (early stage rough mix) – 3:40
15. "The Naked Robot" – 10:19

• David Paton – bass, acoustic guitars
• Stuart Tosh – drums, percussion
• Ian Bairnson – electric and acoustic guitars
• Eric Woolfson, Alan Parsons, Duncan Mackay – keyboards
• B.J. Cole – steel guitar
• John Leach – cimbalom and kantele
• Lenny Zakatek, Allan Clarke, Steve Harley, Jack Harris, Peter Straker, Jaki Whitren and Dave Townsend – vocals
• Produced and engineered by Alan Parsons