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| Asteroid Mining Robot | ||
| An autonomous robot able to effectively mine asteroids. |
The DV-5 mining robot is of an unusual variety; it is a multiple robot. It has six robots working for it.
It is also able to work autonomously: "... these robots are equipped for asteroid mining without supervision."
| It was not overmassive by any means, in spite of its construction as thinking-unit of an integrated seven-member robot team. It was seven feet tall, and a half-ton of metal and electricity. A lot? Not when that half-ton has to be a mass of condensers, circuits, relays, and vacuum cells that can handle practically any psychological reaction known to humans...
"Dave," [Powell] said. "You're a stable, rock-bottom mining robot, except that you're equiped to handle six subsidiaries in direct coordination..." |
| From Catch That Rabbit,
by Isaac Asimov. Published by Astounding Science-Fiction in 1944 Additional resources -
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The company that produced these robots was rather uncompromising; their unwritten motto was "No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time."
Compare to the meteor miner from Salvage in Space (1930) by Jack Williamson.
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