Old Robots Are the Worst is a poem written by Bruce Boston. It was first published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1989. It was reprinted in the 1990 anthology Robots From Asimov's, edited by Sheila Williams, the 1991 anthology Isaac Asimov's Robots, edited by Gardner Dozois and Sheila Williams, in the 1992 collection Cybertexts, in the magazine The Zone #1, Summer 1994, in the 1995 collection Sensuous Debris: Selected Poems 1970-1995, in the 2008 magazine StarShipSofa, No 23, in the 2016 collection Brief Encounters with My Third Eye: Selected Short Poems 1975-2016, and in the 2020 anthology We, Robots, edited by Simon Ings.