Could humans have avoided a robot controlled world?

In each story, we are presented with a new way in which the robots have flaws that affect the future of humanity. The examples in the second half stories include losing a robot that then consciously lies to humans about who it is, a super machine known as the Brain knowingly kidnapping and temporarily killing humans in order to solve the interstellar jump problem, a potential humanoid robot serving in office in place of the real human, and the world slowly being run over by machines. All of these examples reinforce the idea that, as Stephan Byerley said; “Mankind has lost its own say in its future” (147). Much like in R.U.R., the introduction of robots in both stories leaves the world in a worse of place than when it is first introduced. Susan Calvin is alive to witness this transition yet does nothing to stop it. She admits to the interviewer that robots now “stand between mankind and destruction” (148). She says she’s seen it all yet being a robopsychologist she stands idly while the world is slowly overrun by robots. Can we potentially blame her for the destruction portrayed in the stories? Or all humans in general? Along with Calvin, Donovan and Powell also see the transition and threaten to quit but realize their attempts are futile. Much like the other novels we’ve read, a common theme in I, Robot is humanity’s failed attempt to make a better world. The robots were supposed to eliminate all human problems but the world in the hands of the robots seems more divided with more dangerous problems.