(science fiction, robotics) One of the Three Laws of Robotics, requiring a robot to obey humans, unless it would conflict with the First Law of Robotics (which forbids a robot to harm a human).

(science fiction, robotics) One of the Three Laws of Robotics, forbidding a robot to harm a human, through either action or inaction.

The situation in which an automated system, typically a driverless car, experiences something that it has not been programmed to expect, and either does nothing or just stops.

plural of kidnapped robot problem

The situation where an autonomous robot is carried somewhere and as a result has trouble in determining its own location.