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((short description|Short science fiction story by American writer Isaac Asimov))
((refimprove|date=February 2017))
((Infobox short story
|name         = Little Lost Robot
|author       = [[Isaac Asimov]]
|country      = United States 
|language     = English
|series       = [[Robot series (Asimov)|''Robot'' series]]
|genre        = [[Science fiction]] 
|publication_type = [[Periodical]]
|published_in = ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]''
|publisher    = [[Street & Smith]]
|media_type   = Print ([[magazine]], [[Hardcover|hardback]] and [[paperback]])
|pub_date     = March 1947 
|preceded_by  = [[Galley Slave]]
|followed_by  = [[Risk (short story)|Risk]]
))
"'''Little Lost Robot'''" is a [[science fiction]] [[short story]] by American writer [[Isaac Asimov]]. It was first published in the March 1947 issue of ''[[Astounding Science Fiction]]'' and reprinted in the collections ''[[I, Robot]]'' (1950), ''[[The Complete Robot]]'' (1982), ''[[Robot Dreams]]'' (1986), and ''[[Robot Visions]]'' (1990).

"Little Lost Robot" was adapted by ((Ill|Leo Lehman|de)) for the 1962 [[ABC Weekend TV]] [[anthology television series]] ''[[Out of This World (UK TV series)|Out of This World]]'', which also marks the first appearance of [[Susan Calvin]], played by [[Maxine Audley]], in TV and movies. It is the only episode of this series that survives in the archives today. It is available on DVD in region 2 from the [[British Film Institute]].

Elements of "Little Lost Robot" appear in the film ''[[I, Robot (film)|I Robot]]'' (2004), an otherwise original story using Asimov's brand. The story was broadcast as episode three of a five-part ''[[15 Minute Drama]]'' radio adaptation of Asimov's stories on [[BBC Radio 4]] in February 2017.<ref name="BBC 8 February 2017">((cite web |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08csn40|title= Little Lost Robot: Isaac Asimov's I, Robot Episode 3 of 5|author= <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |website= [[BBC Online]] |publisher= BBC | accessdate= 9 February 2017 ))</ref>

==Plot summary==
At the Hyper Base, a [[military]] research station on an [[asteroid]], scientists are working to develop the [[Hyperspace (science fiction)|hyperspace]] drive - a theme that is explored and developed in several of Asimov's stories and mentioned in the Empire and Foundation books. One of the researchers, Gerald Black, loses his temper, swears at an NS-2 (Nestor 10) [[robot]] and tells the robot to get lost. Obeying the order literally, it hides itself. It is then up to [[US Robots]]' Chief Robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin, and Mathematical Director Peter Bogert, to find it. They even know exactly where it is: in a room with 62 other physically identical robots.

But this particular robot is different. As earlier models on the station had attempted to "rescue" humans from a type of radiation that humans could actually stay in for a while, but would destroy a robot almost immediately, it (and all other NS series robots produced for the station) has had its [[Three Laws of Robotics|First Law of Robotics]] modified to "no robot may injure a human being"; the normal "or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm" has been omitted. Therefore, it could stand by and allow a human to be hurt, as long as it plays no active part in it. In "Little Lost Robot", the [[Frankenstein complex]] is again addressed. The robot must be found because people are still afraid of robots, and if they learned that one had been built with a different First Law, there would be an outcry, even though the robot is still incapable of directly harming a human.  However, Dr. Calvin adds further urgency by postulating a situation whereby the altered law ''could'' allow the robot to  harm or even kill a person.  The robot could drop a weight on a human below that it knew it could catch before it injured the potential victim.  Upon releasing the weight however, its altered programming would allow it to simply let the weight drop, since it would have played no further active part in the resulting injury.

After interviewing every robot separately and going down several blind alleys, Dr. Calvin worries desperately that the robot may be gaining a superiority complex that might allow it to directly hurt a human. Dr. Calvin finds a way to trick the robot into revealing itself: She puts herself in danger but not before ensuring the robots understand that if there is any radiation between herself and the robots, they would be unable to save her even if they tried.

Once the test is run, only the Nestor robot they were looking for makes a move to save her, because it detected harmless infrared rays rather than gamma rays. All of the other robots could not identify what type of radiation was being used because it was not part of their design, whereas the modified NS-2 had been through training at Hyper Base and had learned how to detect the difference in radiation types. The robot, finding itself discovered, then explains that the only way to prove itself better than a human is by never being found, and it tries to attack Dr. Calvin so that she cannot reveal she found the robot. Black and Bogert apply gamma rays on the robot, destroying it before it can harm her.

==References==
((reflist))

==External links==
* ((isfdb title|id=45670))

((AsimovStory
|before    = "[[Galley Slave]]"
|included1 = [[I, Robot]]
|included2 = [[The Complete Robot]]<br>[[Robot Dreams]]<br>[[Robot Visions]]
|series1   = [[Robot series (Asimov)|''Robot'' series]]
|series2   = [[Foundation series|''Foundation'' Series]]
|next      = "[[Risk (short story)|Risk]]"
))

((I, Robot))
((The Complete Robot))

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[[Category:I, Robot]]
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