Trust me. I’m a robot. Answers

1o 2z 3j 4k 5v 6m 7t 8d 9g 10a 11n 12y 13i 14e 15q 16x 17w 18s 19u
20b 21f 22r 23h 24p 25c 26l

10a making sure – ensuring
20b harm – injure
25c essential – vital
8d scaled – climbed over
14e hurry – haste
21f omitted – failed
9g correctly – properly
23h strong – powerful
13i continued – kept on
3j macabre – gruesome
4k rules – laws
26l author – writer
6m stop – prevent
11n failing to act – inaction
1o in spite of – despite
24p better – improved
15q in a position to – poised to
22r worried – concerned
18s deal with – address
7t hurting – harming
19u set up – founded
5v arms – weapons
17w injure – harm
16x commands – orders
12y allow – permit
2z provided – as long as

Full text:
Robot safety: As robots move into homes and offices, ensuring^a that they do not injure^b people will be vital^c. But how?
In 1981 Kenji Urada, a 37-year-old Japanese factory-worker, climbed over^d a safety-fence at a Kawasaki plant to carry out some maintenance work on a robot.In his haste^e, he failed^f to switch the robot off properly^g. Unable to sense him, the robot’s powerful^h hydraulic arm kept onⁱ working and accidentally pushed the engineer into a grinding-machine. His death made Urada the first recorded victim to die at the hands of a robot.
This gruesome^j industrial accident would not have happened in a world in which robot behaviour was governed by the Three Laws^k of Robotics drawn up by Isaac Asimov, a science-fiction writer^l. The laws appeared in "I, Robot", a book of short stories published in 1950 that inspired a recent Hollywood film. But decades later the laws, designed to prevent^m robots from harming people either through action or inactionⁿ (see below), remain in the realm of fiction.
Indeed, despite^o the introduction of improved^p safety mechanisms, robots have claimed many more victims since 1981. Over the years people have been crushed, hit on the head, welded and even had molten aluminium poured over them by robots. Last year there were 77 robot-related accidents in Britain alone, according to the Health and Safety Executive.
With robots now poised to^q emerge from their industrial cages and to move into homes and workplaces, roboticists are concerned^r about the safety implications beyond the factory floor. To address^s these concerns, leading robot experts have come together to try to find ways to prevent robots from harming^t people. Inspired by the Pugwash Conferences – an international group of scientists, academics and activists founded^u in 1957 to campaign for the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons^v – the new group of robo-ethicists met earlier this year in Genoa, Italy, and announced their initial findings in March at the European Robotics Symposium in Palermo, Sicily.

Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics
1. A robot may not injure^w a human being, or, through inaction, allow^x a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders^y given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence, as long as^z such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.