This is a short story collection, made by the translator Michael Kantor. The first eleven, "Fables For Robots", seem to come from a later edition of The_Cyberiad, the other three are a bit of a rag-bag, but include one tale of Pilot Pirx. They are all about robots, sentient robots but not artificial intelligence which the cover mentions.
First published in the USA in 1977, this collection has only been available as an import before now. The cover says that Michael Kandel has written a new introduction, but really all that has happened is that his original introduction has been abridged and re-ordered, and one of the most useful parts, a bibliography, has been lost.
I was astonished when I first read The_Cyberiad - the invention was scarcely credible, and it is something continued in the "Fables For Robots". That invention involves three parts - the fables are told entirely from the artificial, non-biological point of view, though these robot worlds seem to be full of characteristics and weaknesses we all recognise. Secondly, they are full of linguistic tricks and puns - a robot enemy is a "cybersary", a character is not Matthew but Automatthew - a credit to Kandel the translator. And thirdly, these stories belong to a parallel to the American stream that began with Eando Binder and was inherited by Isaac Asimov.
The separation from the American stream can be seen in the other stories: "The Hunt", a Pilot Pirx tale, has a scenario similar to Asimov's "Runaround", of a robot being accidentally damaged and then carrying out its programmed instructions in a cock-eyed and threatening way, but Pirx feels himself much closer to the robot than Asimov's characters, even though the robot is alien. The robot might have saved Pirx at the end rather than the rescue party.
"The Sanatorium Of Dr Vliperdius" is visited by Ijon Tichy, another of Lem's novel characters, who discovers the robotic forms of hyperchondria, lunacy, and the failings of cyber-psychiatry.
And the longest story, "The Mask", reads like one of The Tales Of Hoffman. A murderer, having lain three days besides the body of her victim, describes their first meeting, his rejection of her, and then the long hunt in which he tried to avoid what he discovered to be a programmed, robot assassin. The assassin tells this in elegant, romantic prose that lacks the usual key element of such a story - this confession contains no sense of remorse or moral doubt. This is, perhaps, the ultimate tale told by a psychopath, but one who has a reason for this lack of display of human feeling. Lem, of course, had been a doctor.
So this book begins as high farce and ends with this hellegy, yet Lem throughout it has imagined the non-human and, partly, how it might imagine us.