Authored work · Robotics and autonomous systems

The Laws of Robotics

An independently authored first-edition work focused on principles for increasingly capable robots and autonomous systems.

  • First edition
  • Independent authorship
  • Robotics
  • Autonomous systems
  • Robot safety
  • Public repository
A hand holding Daniel Joseph Mueller’s first-edition book The Laws of Robotics
Daniel Joseph Mueller holding the first edition of The Laws of Robotics. Image: Daniel Joseph Mueller

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A first-edition robotics framework

Daniel Joseph Mueller published The Laws of Robotics of Daniel Joseph Mueller as a first-edition work exploring principles for increasingly capable robotic and autonomous systems. It gives public form to a line of inquiry that joins robotics, artificial intelligence, control, and the responsibilities that follow as machines gain more independent capability.

The work is a conceptual project rather than a record of a finished robot or commercial product. By stating its governing ideas openly, it makes the underlying position available for readers to examine instead of leaving those principles implicit in a technical system.

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Robotics in a human context

The work belongs within Daniel’s broader research across humanoid robotics, autonomous machines, robot control, embodied artificial intelligence, machine perception, robotic cognition, safety, ethics, and human-machine interaction. Across those areas, the engineering question and the human question cannot be separated: capability has to be considered alongside intent, limits, and responsibility.

Framing those principles as a named public work makes them easier to identify and revisit as the technology changes. The project documents that part of Daniel’s robotics thinking while his implementation interests continue across software, embedded systems, sensing, and physical machines.

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Read the public edition

The GitHub repository makes the work directly accessible. It includes the main text, supporting Markdown files, a book directory, and the PDF interior for the first edition, allowing readers to review both the source material and the formatted edition.

Readers can follow the dedicated GitHub link on this page to read or download the public edition. The supplied traffic snapshot records 5,701 clones from 5,337 unique cloners during the displayed 14-day reporting window.

First-edition and repository record

The work and its public reach

The first-edition title page and a GitHub traffic snapshot documenting a concentrated 14-day period of repository activity.

Title page for The Laws of Robotics of Daniel Joseph Mueller, First Edition
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GitHub Traffic page for the Daniel-J-Mueller Laws-of-Robotics repository showing 5,701 clones and 5,337 unique cloners in the last 14 days
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