Susan Calvin retired from US Robots in 2057 but continued to act as an occasional consultant for the company. In the Mickey Zucker Reichert book I, Robot: To Protect, while working as a Psychiatrist in 2035, she was handed four cases a traumatized girl that has not talked for 6 years, an obese boy that can't stop eating, a teenaged girl with "dementia, status post A-V fistula repair", and a 4-year-old girl accused of attempted murder. Usually, she is tripped up when she is swayed by emotion (as in "Liar!" and "Lenny"). In Asimov's stories, her emotionless brilliance is portrayed positively, when she solves issues with robots manufactured by her company. By 2029, when she left Earth for the first time to visit Hyper Base, her formal title was Head Psychologist. She joined US Robots in 2008 as their first Robopsychologist, having earned her PhD.
Graduating with a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 2003, she began post-graduate work in cybernetics, learning to construct positronic brains such that responses to given stimuli could be accurately predicted. But as she watched and listened, she felt the stirrings of a cold enthusiasm". She was a frosty girl, plain and colorless, who protected herself against a world she disliked by a mask-like expression and a hypertrophy of intellect. As quoted in I, Robot "Susan said nothing at that seminar took no part in the hectic discussion period that followed. This was after attending a Psycho-Math seminar at which Dr Alfred Lanning of US Robots demonstrated the first mobile robot to be equipped with a voice. At 16, she wrote the first of many papers on robotics, a Physics-1 paper entitled "Practical Aspects of Robotics". She was the main character in many of Asimov's short stories concerning robots, which were later collected in the books I, Robot and The Complete Robot.Īccording to Asimov's fictional history of robotics, Susan Calvin was born in 1982, the same year that US Robots and Mechanical Men was incorporated. She was the chief robopsychologist at US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc., posited as the major manufacturer of robots in the 21st century. According to I, Robot, Susan Calvin was born in the year 1982 and died at the age of 82, either in 2064 or 2065.
Susan Calvin is a fictional character appearing in Isaac Asimov's Robot series of science fiction short stories.
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