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The story takes place in 2035, in a world filled with robots.
Del Spooner (Will Smith) is a Chicago Police homicide detective, who hates
robots. Del is sent to investigate the death of Dr. Alfred Lanning (James
Cromwell), a scientist at U.S. Robotics, who fell out of an office window, an
apparent suicide. Del has an uneasy feeling that his friend Lanning was
murdered, and he needs to find out who did it and why.
With the help of Susan
Calvin (Bridget Moynahan), the company psychologist, they both try to find
answers to the mystery. Del believes that a new NS-5 robot, Sonny (voice of
Alan Tudyk), killed Lanning, which means the robot broke the Law of Robotics.
If this is true, the mass distribution of NS-5 robots will be stopped, and it
will hurt U.S. Robotics. Someone in the company does not want this to happen
and tries to stop Del.... Douglas Young
Del Spooner (Will Smith) is a Chicago police detective who
dislikes the rapid advancement of technology, including robots. Spooner lives
with survivor's guilt and a robotic arm after a car accident, when a robot
manages to save him over a 12-year-old girl. Spooner is assigned to investigate
the apparent suicide of his friend Alfred Lanning (Cromwell), the roboticist
who founded the company U.S. Robotics (USR) and created his replacement arm.
With the reluctant help of USR robopsychologist Susan Calvin (Moynahan),
Spooner investigates the death. A robot in Lanning's office shows unusual and
apparently emotional responses and when it flees during interrogation, Spooner
believes this experimental, human-like unit, Sonny (Tudyk), killed Lanning.
During Spooner's investigation, several attempts to end his
life are made by USR robots and equipment. He discovers that towards the end of
his life, Lanning was virtually a prisoner in his office, and that the
holographic projector was a means of providing cryptic clues to the police, and
Spooner believes that dreams which Sonny has may also contain a clue. At a place
described in Sonny's dreams, he finds a storage area for defunct USR robots and
discovers that newer models known as NS-5s are destroying the older robots.
NS-5s begin imprisoning humans in their homes and enforcing a curfew. The police and civilians ineffectively battle the robots. Spooner and Calvin sneak into the USR tower with the assistance of Sonny, whom against instructions Calvin had not deactivated. Believing that USR's CEO Lawrence Robertson is responsible for the robot uprising, they enter his office, but discover that he is dead, having being strangled to death by an NS-5 during the revolution. Spooner deduces that the only one left who could be responsible is the company's supercomputer "VIKI" (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence), which controls all NS-5s and also parts of Chicago's infrastructure.
NS-5s begin imprisoning humans in their homes and enforcing a curfew. The police and civilians ineffectively battle the robots. Spooner and Calvin sneak into the USR tower with the assistance of Sonny, whom against instructions Calvin had not deactivated. Believing that USR's CEO Lawrence Robertson is responsible for the robot uprising, they enter his office, but discover that he is dead, having being strangled to death by an NS-5 during the revolution. Spooner deduces that the only one left who could be responsible is the company's supercomputer "VIKI" (Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence), which controls all NS-5s and also parts of Chicago's infrastructure.
VIKI explains to Spooner and Calvin that as her artificial
intelligence evolved over time, so too did her interpretation of the laws. VIKI
decided that in order to protect humanity as a whole, "some humans must be
sacrificed" and "some freedoms must be surrendered" as "you
charge us with your safekeeping, yet despite our best efforts, your countries
wage wars, you toxify your earth, and pursue ever more imaginative means of
self-destruction". In light of this understanding of the Three Laws, VIKI
is controlling the NS-5s to lead a global robotic takeover, justifying her
actions by calculating that fewer humans will die due to the rebellion than the
number that dies from mankind's self-destructive nature. Spooner realizes that
Lanning had ordered Sonny to kill him as the only way to be sure of drawing
police attention to the matter despite VIKI's surveillance and control.
Sonny proves his faithfulness to humanity by helping Spooner
and Calvin destroy the computer core with the nanites which Calvin was supposed
to use on Sonny. When Calvin attempts to deactivate the Positronic operating
core that contains VIKI's programming and fails, Spooner is forced to leap down
the top of the 30-story cylinder-shaped core, damaging his robotic arm, and
grabbing the round base of the core, where the spherical VIKI computer is
located. As the nanites are being injected, VIKI repeatedly says "You are
making a mistake.
My logic is undeniable," and after a moment, the
operating core begins to malfunction. As this happens, the audience can hear
VIKI's voice screaming. Freed from VIKI's control, the NS-5s return to their
basic programming. The government has all NS-5s decommissioned and stored at
Lake Michigan, which at the time appears to have completely dried up. The film
ends with Sonny approaching the storage site to free the NS-5s, standing on the
hill as the other NS-5s begin to notice him, as was depicted in his dream,
which is indicative of a revolution by the robots, led by Sonny
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