Asimov's three Laws

These are Asimov's famous Robot Law. It is not used in Union Robots.

Laws of Robotics are a set of laws, rules, or principles, which are intended as a fundamental framework to underpin the behavior of robots designed to have a degree of autonomy. Robots of this degree of complexity do not yet exist, but they have been widely anticipated in science fiction, films and are a topic of active research and development in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence.

This includes the legal and legal-philosophical conditions surrounding the use and application of robots. The legal and technical terminology in today’s law is becoming ever more difficult to apply in practice as the field of robotics progresses. Robot law is a legal discussion on the assessment of the status of advanced machines that focuses on the ever-increasing autonomy (or quasi-autonomy) of technical systems equipped with artificial intelligence. This discussion leads to a reassessment of legal rights and obligations in addition to traditional legal categories (e.g. messenger, agent, and tool).

The best known set of laws are those written by Isaac Asimov in the 1940s, or based upon them, but other sets of laws have been proposed by researchers in the decades since then.