Widespread adoption of robots eliminates tedious and heavy production operations, improves labor productivity and product quality. At the same time, it leads to the emergence of problems not only of a technical, but also of a philosophical-psychological and socio-economic plan. Questions arise about the depth of analogies between human labor activity and the functioning of a robot, between thinking and artificial intelligence, questions about the "relationship" between a person and a robot, etc. Consideration of these and some other questions related to robotics is the content of the book.