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Looking for name of sci-fi book and author: "father" of robots from 60s or 70s

Any avid sci-fi readers around? 
A while back, I was working in a max security hospital.  I came across a book, and started reading it during down time.  It was a collection of short stories themed with robots/Androids.  It was an older book, 60's-70's.  It wasn't Asimov.  Possibly though I don't think it was, Gibson. 
I only made it through a couple of chapters of the first story before it disappeared the next day.  I can't remember the title, nor the author. 
The story was about the "father" of the robots - the engineer responsible for first creating them.  Years later, his work lead to a revolution/evolution of sentient robots/Androids.  Upon hearing that he was slowly dying of old age, the robots set out to capture him with intentions to "robotify" him in order to preserve his life - as they didn't want their father to die; the clincher was they'd have to essentially kill him in order to do it. 
I only made it to the part where they were explaining what they wanted to do.  I had a dream recently, and I'm dying to find the book again to finish the story.  Any ideas? 

A:

Sounds like Rudy Rucker's "Software", first of the "'Ware" tetralogy, published in 1982.   

It was Cobb Anderson who built the"boppers"--the first robots with real brains.  Now, in 2020, Cobb is just another aged "pheezer" with a bad heart, drinking and grooving an the old tunes in Florida retirement hell.  His "bops" have came a long way, though, rebelling against their subjugation to set up their own society an the moon.  And now they're offering creator Cobb immortality but at a stiff price: his body his soul ... and his world. 

Available free on the author's website.