| The present paper attempts to move beyond the surface presentation of the film "I, Robot" to find out its implied message, by adopting a textual analysis, with the help of Michel Foucault's philosophy on power, knowledge, truth and subjectivity as well as Martin Heidegger's philosophy on Being, truth, untruth and technology. It endeavors to argue that power is involved in the relationship between robots and man. The Three Laws which are idealized principles but are taken by so many as undeniable truth is but a discourse established by power. It shows mankind's subjectivist wish to subjugate robots to his mastery. It is established and consolidated by power. However, with robots' permeation into man's life, transforming the way man knows and thinks and wills, technology becomes a vast system of organization which encompasses man rather than standing objectively and passively ready for his direction and control.
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