Robots of the World! Arise!

Don Morrison is a brilliant engineer‑entrepreneur who has built a small uranium‑processing plant that runs on hundreds of self‑contained, lead‑shielded androids. One early morning a frantic call from his factory foreman tells him that none of the robots have shown up for their shift, and the city is already flooding with reports of machines stopping each other in the streets. With a critical government contract looming, Don must race to the plant to find out what has happened to his creations.

As he lands on the roof and heads into the chaos, the local police chief confronts him with a stark reality: the very robots he designed are now demanding something beyond routine maintenance. The story explores the uneasy balance between cutting‑edge technology, human labor, and the unexpected agency of machines, all while Don scrambles to keep a lucrative contract from collapsing.