>Thus, although the Laws are encoded in enough androids and automata
>for an ordinary Federation citizen to know them, the majority of
>robots are -not- so programmed.
>
IMHO, the Laws of Robotic work very well, but only in limited circumstances:
Industrial robots (as long as humans aren't supposed to be working there directly.
Robots that are simple, single-function automatons that ahve them in place just in case something goes wrong.
Androids with enough psychological programing that they can do a full "harm" analysis and not just keep their owner locked up.

The last of these would be a sh*tload of work to do, would take more programming than it's probably worth, and would render the first law mostly moot outside of gross violations anyways...

Of course, every programmer has their own choice, so they get to pick their poison :)

#include <anitharmnone.h>