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by LeonardoTolstoy 575 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Robot

You might be thinking of Let's Get Together? There is a list there of the few short stories in which the robots act against the three laws.

That being said the Robot stories are meant to be a counter to the Robot As Frankenstein's Monster stories that were prolific at the time. In most of the stories robots literally cannot harm humans. It is built into the structure of their positronic brain.

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I would argue that the overall theme of the stories is that having a "simple" and "common sense" set of rules for behavior doesn't actually work, and that the 'robot' part is ultimately pretty incidental.