On last night’s episode of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Grant Imahara gave an update on the creation of Geoff Petersen, future skeleton robot sidekick to Craig Ferguson. And the coolest thing is that he actually used the Three Laws of Skelo-Robotics that I came up with a few weeks ago. Check it out:

Grant gave me credit in a tweet today, and also said that he gave me credit in the filming but it got edited out. Nice of him to do that, because as a devoted member of the robot skeleton army, I really don’t expect credit for anything I do for my overlord, the great Craig Ferguson. To have something I created used on his show makes me feel just as lucky (if not more so) than the naked hobos that get to be in his presence every day. And it was especially satisfying to see how well the laws worked when Geoff encountered Helena Bonham Carter.

My work here is done!

So anybody that is a fan of Craig Ferguson, lord of late night quirkiness, knows by now that he has (somehow) managed to convince Grant Imahara, animatronics engineer of Lucas ILM fame and host of TV show Mythbusters, to build him a skeleton robot as a sidekick on the Late Late Show. Anticipation is high among those of us in the robot skeleton army (how @CraigyFerg refers to his followers on Twitter), but as a huge Asimov fan I knew something important had been missed from the project. So, I took the liberty of formulating the Three Laws of Skelo-Robotics and tweeted them to the world. Here they are all put together “formally” (on my blog, which I shall then tweet):

1st Law of Skelo-Robotics: A skeleton robot may not find a @CraigyFerg joke unfunny or, through inaction, allow it to bomb

2nd Law of Skelo-Robotics: A skeleton robot must obey orders given by @CraigyFerg, except where such orders would conflict with the 1st Law

3rd Law of Skelo-Robotics: A skeleton robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with 1st or 2nd Law

I hope that these laws help ensure a long, prosperous (ratings-wise) and hilarious run for Geoff Petersen, skeleton robot sidekick.