The Humanoids Author:Jack Williamson To serve man... — The simple idea that led to the creation of robots, a race of mechanical creatures dedicated only to the service of their human masters. No longer would men have to toil at disagreeable tasks just to maintain a standard of agreeable living. Work now meant nothing more than a scientific description, used only in physics; men mu... more »st do only what they wanted to do. The robots removed the burden of living...to serve man and guard him from harm...as they obeyed the unbreakable law that made man slave and robot master!« less