The robots would not have allowed that.
After all, the First Law says in part that a robot may not allow a human to come to harm through inaction.
Then the robots allowed them to retreat to the O.R. once again to consult with each other.
The robots couldn't allow that much danger to a human to exist here.
The time is a few years into the future, when robots allow humans to play at war vicariously.
No properly functioning robot would allow that to happen.
Manufacture: Snake-arm robots allow structures to be assembled in a different way.
The robot could then change his mind and merely by inaction, allow the weight to strike.
It said: Positively no robots allowed on passenger jets.
Thomas Cardif identified himself and the robot allowed him to go into the room.