I looked at my notes and didn't like them. I'd spent three days at the United States Robots company, its offices and factories like a small city, and I needed more personal information for newspaper. And so 1 went to interview inmuni Dr Calvin. Susan Calvin had been 6orn in the year 1982. At the age of twenty she had Alfred Lanning of US Robots who had shown her the first robot with a voice. It was a large, clumsy, ugly robot which was going to be sent to the mines on Mercury Susan was a cold girl, plain and colourless, who disliked the world around her. But as she watched and listened to the robot, she felt the beginning of a cold excitement. In 2008 she completed her final degree at Columbia University, and began work US Robots the first psychologist, For fifty years she watched the development of robots and now she was leaving US Robots at the age of seventy-five, as "My newspaper reaches the whole solar system, I said to Dr Calvin. "We have three billion readers, Dr Calvin. would like to hear your views on robots,' Dr Calvin didn't smile at me. I don't think she ever smiled. She was small and thin and her eyes were sharp, though not angry.