Three Laws of Robotics robot's entire developing consciousness is based. This concept is largely fuzzy and unclear in earlier stories depicting very rudimentary robots who are only programmed to comprehend basic physical tasks, where the Three Laws act as an overarching safeguard, but by the era of "The Caves of Steel" featuring robots with human or beyond-human intelligence the Three Laws have become the underlying basic ethical worldview that determines the actions of all robots. In the 1990s, Roger MacBride Allen wrote a trilogy which was set within Asimov's fictional universe. Each title has the prefix "Isaac Asimov's" as Asimov had approved Allen's outline
Sci-Fi Valley Con Sci-Fi Valley Con Team also spent a year building a lifesize Claptrap from the Borderlands video game series. This will be one of the most realistic lifesize replicas of Claptrap in existence. The prop made its world debut alongside David Eddings who voiced the character in the video games and Dameon Clarke who voiced Handsome Jack in Borderlands and Cell from the Dragon Ball Z series. Sci-Fi Valley Con, Part 7 show was on June 8–10, 2018 at Blair County Convention Center in Altoona, PA. The 2018 celebrity guest list included: Jim Beaver, best known from his role as Bobby