Focus: #1 The First Law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm

ON 25 JANUARY 1979, car worker Robert Williams gained the unfortunate distinction of becoming the first human to be killed by a robot at a Ford plant in Michigan. Two years later, a robot in a Kawasaki plant pushed worker Kenji Urada into a grinding machine with its hydraulic arm.