Escape!
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Escape! (first published as "Paradoxical Escape") (1945) is science-fiction short story by Isaac Asimov.
Many research organisations are working to develop the hyperspace drive. US Robots are approached by their biggest competitor with plans for a hyperspace engine (a theme which would be further developed in other stories). They are wary because in performing the calculations, their rival's (non-positronic) supercomputer destroyed itself. They determine a way in which they can feed the information to their own computer, a positronic one known as The Brain (not strictly speaking a robot as it doesn't move), without the same thing happening, and build a ship. But when Powell and Donovan test the ship, they find that The Brain has been playing practical jokes on them; it hasn't built any manual controls for the ship and it only supplies tinned beans and milk for the crew to survive on. Eventually, the ship does come back to Earth after a hyperspace jump, and US Robots discover what happened. A hyperspace jump causes the crew of the ship to cease existing for a brief moment, which is a temporary violation of the First Law and therefore frightens the AI of "The Brain" into irrational, childish behavior as a means of coping.
This story again relies on the differences in interpretation of the Laws of Robotics between the human members of US Robots and their mechanical creations. The important factor in this robot is its personality; it allows the supercomputer to calculate the answer to the hyperspace problem, but causes it to behave immaturely when confronted with the issues of human death.