Why is it "I, Robot", and not just "Robot"?

[Benjamin]

Couldn't you just have well called the movie "Robot"? I mean, the main focus of the story is just a robot. I've noticed a few titles to fiction now beginning with just an "I" and a comma. I don't get it, what is the "I" for? All I can think of is the beginning of a sentence where the character is referring to himself, but even then it still just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Is it just an artsy trend? The hashtag of Isaac Asimov's time? I'm in college now and this still confuses me, and I've never heard anyone say a single word about it. Anyone know exactly why the author just puts a an "I" before the title?

[Zero119]

To me, it means that the character is referencing himself (I, Robot). Kind of like "I, the robot". I'm not really sure how else to explain it.

[Isabel]

They weren't just robots, they had very rudimentary intelligence as they were programmed to distinguish differences and act based on the outcome of the process - therefore they were human-like, and that is why I. I is the distinction of being self, an ego, a person.

Have you ever watched Star Trek Next Generation? There was an episode where they capture a Borg, a young man - Hugh is the name they gave him. If you know anything about the Borg, you know it has a collective intelligence, therefore there is no I to the Borg. The episode was actually titled I Borg - and I made my own conclusion that it was in reference to Asimov's story. The premise of the story is that this adolescent Borg lost his contact with the collective and he started to develop his own thoughts - look into that if you have more interest, it was a very intriguing episode.
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Hugh
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/I_Borg_(episode)
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/08/star-tr...n-qi-borgq

[Jennifer]

The movie and the book have nothing in common but the name. The book was a series of different stories, of different robots, through the career of Dr. Susan Calvin, a "robopsycologist" when she's very old and retiring.
Asimov wanted to call his book of short stories "Mind And Iron" but his publisher wanted it to be "I, Robot" (and back then you didn't argue with the publisher) so "I, Robot" it was. He got the name from a short story printed earlier, and the title made sense for that story.

[Sci-fighter]

Impels self awareness. In a robot. Duh.

[Bobbi Dawn]

because apple made it.