[Humanoids 02] • The humanoid touch

HUMANOIDS: Self-directed robots invented to serve guard mankind

"With Folded Hands" is a 1947 sf novelette by Jack Williamson (1908–2006). His influence for this story was in the aftermath of WWII the atomic bombings of Japan his concern that "some of the technological creations we had developed with the best intentions might have disastrous consequences in the long run." The story was followed by a novel-length rewrite, with a different setting inventor. This, serialized as ... Searching Mind, was finally published as The Humanoids (1948). He followed with a sequel, The Humanoid Touch, published in 1980.