Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics

Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics were introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround", the Laws state the following:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

This project proposes you build a robot (with as many different sensors as possible) using a Lego MindStorms kit and explore how you would implement these laws. The robot would be fairly humanoid in shape with arms, and maybe legs, maybe like Mek-Quake or Ro-Jaws or Pneuman. Which sensors work best with which laws? How do you implement "harm"? How do you implement "existence"? etc. You would have to read "The Emperor's New Mind" and may have to look at Murphy and Woods The Three Laws of Responsible Robotics.

Bristol Robotics Laboratory have looked at the first law in detail, and io9 spoke to a range of experts on all three laws.