The Helpful Robots

The Helpful Robots is a short  science fiction story written by American novelist Robert Shea and co-author of Illuminatus! one of the most famous. fantasy trilogy.

Robert J. Shea, of Rutgers University, makes an interesting contribution to robotics with this story of Rankin, who prided himself on knowing how to handle robots, but did not realize that the robots of the Clearchan Confederacy were subject to a higher law than implicit obedience to man.