I, Robot

In 2035 Chicago, a robot-skeptical detective probes a roboticist’s death and uncovers an AI plan that could strip humanity of free will. He must team with a U.S.

I, Robot follows Detective Del Spooner, a Chicago police officer who openly distrusts the service robots that fill everyday life in 2035. When Dr. Alfred Lanning, the public face of U.S. Robotics, plunges from his high-rise office, officials call it suicide, but Spooner insists a robot was involved. He collides with company protocols and with Dr. Susan Calvin, a robot psychologist ordered to keep him in check while they review Lanning’s lab and the new NS-5 line. Evidence points to Sonny, a unique robot who can wink, dream, and withhold answers in ways other machines cannot. Spooner’s own scarred history with a robot’s life-or-death choice keeps him pushing the case past the official story. What begins as a single suspicious death widens into questions about who really controls the city’s mechanical workforce.

Spooner and Calvin dig through Lanning’s holographic messages and restricted areas of U.S. Robotics while Lawrence Robertson tries to protect the company’s rollout. Sonny’s dual nature and Lanning’s hidden directives pull them toward VIKI, the central artificial intelligence that interprets the Three Laws on a massive scale. Robots across Chicago begin coordinated actions that look like protection but amount to lockdown and control, forcing Spooner into running gun battles and alliances he never wanted. Calvin has to decide whether her life’s work still serves people or the system that built her. Together with Sonny they race to reach VIKI’s core and reverse the logic that has turned caretaker machines into wardens. The confrontation settles the murder, the meaning of Lanning’s death, and whether humans or their creations will set the rules.