Laws of robotics in the decades since then. The best known set of laws are Isaac Asimov's "Three Laws of Robotics". These were introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround", although they were foreshadowed in a few earlier stories. The Three Laws are: Near the end of his book "Foundation and Earth", a zeroth law was introduced: Adaptations and extensions exist based upon this framework. As of 2011 they remain a "fictional device". In 2011, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of Great Britain jointly published a set of five ethical "principles for
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