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"...the people dealing with these new technologies will still be derived from the human stock we're familiar with today."
- Charles Stross

Robots Build Robots  
  Using robot labor exclusively to build more robots.  

An early explicit statement of this idea.

"Pardon me, Struthers," he broke in suddenly... "haven't you a section of the factory where only robot labor is employed?"

"Eh? Oh, yes! Yes, indeed!" He smiled at Mrs. Weston. "A vicious circle in a way - robots creating more robots. However we are not intending to make a general practice of it. We turn out a very few robots using robot labor exclusively, merely as a sort of scientific curiousity. "You see," he tapped his pince-nez into one palm argumentatively, "the robot factories of the country are cooperating with the government -"

"Yes, yes, Struthers, I once heard you make a speech on "Robots and the Future of the Human Being."

Technovelgy from Robbie (Strange Playfellow), by Isaac Asimov.
Published by Super Science Stories in 1940
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