I-ROBOT

Submitted to:- Dr. Ankita Sharma

I, Robot is a 2004 American dystopian science fiction action film

directed by Alex Proyas and it starred Will Smith in the lead role
as Detective Del Spooner.
On the broader scale the film circles around three
laws of robotics which are set of rules devised by the science
fiction author Isaac Asimov, in 1942. The rules are as follows :
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction,
allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings,
except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such
protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
So far so good , but as we move in deeper into the movie,
we discover that it tries to take us into a future where humanity
is surviving in an environment where robots go hand in hand to
serve them.

Now comes the twist , Sonny ! It is not a person or a pet

but it is something which a NS-5 is willing to be called . What ?
Now the curtains are falling and we discover a novel piece
of imagination of the scriptwriter where he has incorporated a
robot with human emotions. A robot who is having a dream,
who can break the universal laws of robotics, who can show his
anger and will to be given a name, is certainly not a robot but
quite more than an object.
Now going a bit imaginative, had this situation been a real
case scenario, it would have definitely increased the earning of
professional psychologists for they would be having a new
category of patients.
So coming back to the topic under spotlight, in this report
we have tried to express important conclusions which are of
psychological importance. Being students of psychology
course ,we all have jointly extracted the following points from
the movie with a psychological approach .
We have presented the whole analysis in a character wise
format.

V.I.K.I.

V.I.K.I. i.e Virtual Interactive Kinesthetic Interface was an

artificial intelligent supercomputer ,that was highly advanced
,efficient and very powerful. It was used by robotic company
USR. There was a flaw in her programming whose impacts
were much more psychological .She became too concerned for
the safety of humans and so thus, she decided to enslave whole
humanity for their own safety.

Though she was given the responsibility to let follow the THREE
LAWS OF ROBOTICS but psychologically her sentience and
logical thinking also developed, and she deduced that the
humanity is going on a path of certain demotion, for example
one human kills another human for their achievement, and as
such, she created a Zeroth Law which states that she has to
protect humanity from being harmed which could overpower
the First and Second Laws. She also revealed that she was
planning to enslave and control humanity to simply protect it.
Her intensity of emotions to let obey these three laws had grew
to the extent, at which she thought that The humans have to
sacrifice for their own safety.
She assumed her logic to be so much perfect and flawless, that
she even enslaved her own master. She herself said to Spooner
in one of her dialoguesYou are making a mistake. My logic is undeniable.
Nanites were injected into her and finally she was deactivated
and dissembled.

SONNY

Sonny is a fictional character in the film I Robot and is a

modified NS-5 robot who is built with a denser alloy which is
unaffected by Electromagnetic fields and could break the force
fields and is much faster and stronger than the other NS-5s.
Alfred Lanning designed him in such a way that he can disobey
the three laws. He has his own emotions and independent
thinking. He is able to manipulate situations and take his own
logical decisions regardless of instructions given to him. First

Example: In the movie, spooner wanted him to surrender but

he didnt listen to his command and was not caught until
spooner found him . Second Example: He was not influenced
by VIKI and was not dominated by its logic as he had his own
emotions. He also asks intellectual questions. For instance
SPOONER: Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turns a
canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?
SONNY: Can you? Detective.
Sonny is influenced by human emotional actions .For
instance: He asks Spooner what it feels like when they look at
other humans.
Sonny had dreams, anger, sleep. He knows everything but can
keep secrets. He could do sketching with both hands together.
He is able to do things at his own. He is mentally sensed and
raised intellectual questions which suggests that Sonnys
emotions made him look similar much like humans. For
Example: Instead of destroying VIKI, he saves Calvin on the
instructions of Spooner which suggests that his emotions are
much similar to that of humans.
Sonny could cognitively evaluate the instructions given to him
and was able to judge which instructions to follow and which
not to follow by analysing the situation.For example: He did
not follow the instructions of VIKI but went along with spooner
and assisted him to save humanity.
Sonny is a obedient robot. He followed the commands given by
Spooner and fought with other NS-5s which were controlled by
VIKI . On the instruction of Spooner he saved Calvin. He didnt
resist Calvin when she was going to dismantle him.
Sonny sets an example that emotion containing robot is at a
better stand than the robots without emotions .

Spooner

Spooner is shown in the movie with a prejudice against robots

even attributing them as having no soul Just lights and
clockworth. This was because of a car accident where an NS-4
decided to save him from drowning rather than a little girl
called Sarah because the Robot calculated the chances of his
successful rescue were much higher than that of the girl. To the
irony Spooner himself had a robotic arm and an artificial lung.
Personality:As explained above Spooner had a very violent aptitude
towards Robots and even to people who place their trust in
them. As a result of the car accident, he believes that robots
don't feel any kind of emotion and was not ready to accept the
fact that Sonny a robot could ac-comp feelings and can even
see dreams. He even shot him in the legs when he was running
from them.
Del Spooner was a goal dedicated kind of person and his
ideology was to see results not methods. Most of the time calm,
casual personality and had a very dry sense of humor. He was
also childish in nature and had very great sarcasm. He was not
afraid to speak the words in mind. He was not a believer of
team work mostly because of his unique perspective over
things. He was also a emotional kind of person but the number
of people whom he got attached were quite less. He also
showed that he cared for people generally. He wasn't afraid to
throw himself to help others. In the end it comes out that he
was afraid of heights. As the movie ends his conviction about
robots changed gradually and finally becomes a good friend of
Sonny.
Spooner was a retro fashion, lived in a late 90's style
apartment. He also used to wore vintage 2004 converse all
start sneakers. He was owner of the vintage JVC DVD player

and a 1990's alarm clock handwatch both of which got extinct

in 2050.

Alferd Lanning

Alfred Lanning was the founder of USR and the creater of the
control system which controlled all the robots. But as it is
quoted in the movie,"There have always been ghosts in the
system". His creation the automated programme VIKI had
random segments of code, that accidently grouped together
and formed unexpected protocols which overtook the Basic
three laws of robotics.
Dr. Lanning knew that VIKI is out of control and has started to
take over humans. He was aware of the outcomes of it, so he
created a new special kind of robot which was more than a
robot but less than a human, Sonny to destroy the VIKI.
He also sacrificed his life with belief that his creation Sonny and
one of the friend detectives Del Spooner will understand the
unsolved mystries behind his death and finally connect them to
VIKI to save humans and humanity.
The climax of the story was when Sonny showed Spooner his
dream. The bridge finally gave realization in Spooner, and
Spooner got the fact that it was not a suicide.''

Made By:Mohit Agarwal

Mohit Gupta
Abhishek Agrawal
Himanshu Agrawal
Aman Singh
Aditya Saxena
Ajay Sokil
Amit Kumar