Ok, I found these titles.
The robot novels (all published by Doubleday):
1. _The_Caves_of_Steel_ 1954 Doubleday
2. _The_Naked_Sun_ 1957 Doubleday
3. _The_Robots_of_Dawn 1983 Doubleday
4. _Robots_and_Empire_ 1985 Doubleday
These are framed around murder mysteries; look at humans
using robots to do things they weren't designed for; and
robots doing things that seem to conflict with the laws of
robotics, but we find out the robots have better analytic
skills than their masters.
Asimov also wrote a number of robot short stories, collected
in _I,_Robot_ (1950) and _The_Complete_Robot_ (1982).
I must credit this information to Ed Seiler's Asimov FAQ at
http://www.clark.net/pub/edseiler/asimov/Isaac_Asimov_FAQ_
Part_?_of_4,
where ? = 1, 2, 3, & 4.
They are in undelmited ASCII, not HTML, and difficult to
read with a Web browser.
BTW: I finished _Snow_Crash_ in June, and saw little
treatment of what I call a "robot" (which includes
by definition the ability to move). ???
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