Lenny (short story)

Lenny (short story)

Infobox Short story |
name = Lenny
author = Isaac Asimov
country = United States
language = English
series = Robot Series
genre = science fiction short story
published_in = "Infinity Science Fiction"
publisher = Royal Publications
media_type = Magazine
pub_date = January 1958
preceded_by = Satisfaction Guaranteed
followed_by = Galley Slave "Lenny" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, originally published in the January 1958 issue of "Infinity Science Fiction", and included in the collections "The Rest of the Robots" (1964), "The Complete Robot" (1982), and "Robot Visions" (1990).

US Robots is planning the production of the LNE series of robots, which are designed for boron mining in the asteroid belt. As a result of a curious tourist on a public tour of the company, the prototype is manufactured with a faulty brain, giving it a personality equivalent to that of a human infant, and it can't speak except in "baby talk".

Robopsychologist Susan Calvin experiments with it, in the process naming it "Lenny" (and developing maternal feelings for it), and after a month, has been able to teach it a few simple words and actions. She gets emotionally attached to Lenny and realises that robots can be built that are able to learn, instead of being built for a fixed and specific purpose.

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before="Satisfaction Guaranteed"
included1=The Rest of the Robots
included2=The Complete Robot
series1=Robot Series
series2=Foundation Series
next="Galley Slave"


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