Hi, Robot: Adults, Children And The Uncanny Valley

Henry Wellman is the Harold W. Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Kimberly Brink is a doctoral candidate in developmental psychology at the University of Michigan. Science fiction writer Isaac Asimov collected a series of his short stories on robots in his now famous anthology I, Robot. The series "revolutionized science fiction ... and made robots far more interesting than they ever had been," according to the Saturday Evening Post. I, Robot begins with a lesser-known story: Robbie.