Robots were invented in the 1800s so aristocrats could practice chess
without complimenting their servants’ intelligence.  As the complexity
of robots increased, one man could see that the trajectory of
human-robot interactions was pointing towards war.  A war our metal
adversaries were being prepared for by countless chess matches.  As
man-and-robot-kind were leapfrogging toward their eventual conflict
that man, Isaac Asimov, was able to drag us back from the brink.  His
laws of robotics brought forth the possibility of human and robot
cooperation rather than adversity.  Fear of a robot uprising no longer
haunted society’s psyche.  The most dire worry of the populace became
that robot servants might serve their morning coffee at an inappropriate
temperature.  At that point Asimov could have rested on well-deserved
laurels, something any normal man would have done, but Asimov was
extraordinary.  The possibility of his grandchildren facing the
iniquity of tepid coffee galled him.  Galled him to his bones.  As a
safeguard for all future generations, he codified his suggestions for
robot etiquette.

We are humbled to present some of those suggestions in the above comic