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* AIIsACrapshoot: DV-5 is designed to be a central robot with six additional robots networked to function as subsidiary units. It ''should'' be capable of [[AsteroidMiners mining asteroids]] without supervision. At least, that's what the engineers who built him say. Field testers Gregory Powell and Mike Donovan have discovered a problem, and they'll [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity lose their jobs]] if they can't figure out a solution soon.
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* RemoteBody: The DV series model is of a central robot with six additional robots networked to function as subsidiary systems. While each "finger" is capable of independent thought, they are networked together under the central command, following Dave's orders.
* RobotNames: The DV series model is of a central robot with six additional robots networked to function as [[RemoteBody subsidiarysystems.systems]]. The central robot is officially [[YouAreNumberSix DV-5]] (and [[InSeriesNickname unofficially]] Dave), while the first of the subsidiaries is DV-5-2.
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First published in ''Magazine/AstoundingScienceFiction'' (February 1944 issue), by Creator/IsaacAsimov, this ScienceFiction ShortStory is about another instance when robots [[AIIsACrapshoot don't function as intended]], so the field-testers of US Robotics and Mechanical Men Corporation have to figure out why.
In the asteroid belt, Powell and Donovan are working with a new prototype robot, DV-5 (also known as [[InSeriesNickname Dave]]). Dave's design is a central robot with six additional robots networked to function as subsidiary devices. They function within acceptable parameters while supervised, but under certain conditions they stop working for hours at a time. The pair of field testers worry that if they don't figure out how to fix it (or at least what's causing it) they'll lose their jobs. Unfortunately, during one of their covert observations, they get trapped by a cave-in while Dave is malfunctioning. If they can't get him to work properly, they'll die.
"Catch That Rabbit" has been reprinted four times; ''Literature/IRobot'' (1951), ''Literature/TheCompleteRobot'' (1982), ''{{Literature/Robur}} 10'' (1985), and ''Literature/TheAsimovChroniclesFiftyYearsOfIsaacAsimov'' (1989).
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!!"Catch That Rabbit" provides examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: DV-5 is designed to be a central robot with six additional robots networked to function as subsidiary units. It ''should'' be capable of [[AsteroidMiners mining asteroids]] without supervision. At least, that's what the engineers who built him say. Field testers Gregory Powell and Mike Donovan have discovered a problem, and they'll [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity lose their jobs]] if they can't figure out a solution soon.
-->"There's still the possibility of a mechanical breakdown in the body. That leaves about fifteen hundred condensers, twenty thousand individual electric circuits, five hundred vacuum cells, a thousand relays, and upty-ump thousand other individual pieces of complexity that can be wrong. And these mysterious positronic fields no one knows anything about."
* ArtificialIntelligence: DV-5 is a robot with a positronic brain that gives it human-level intelligence. The subsidiary units are less complex, but still capable of natural language processing.
-->a mass of condensers, circuits, relays, and vacuum cells that can handle practically any psychological reaction known to humans. And a positronic brain, which with ten pounds of matter and a few quintillions of positrons runs the whole show.
* AsteroidMiners: The DV-5 unit is expected to automate asteroid mining, so Powell and Donovan are testing him out on an unnamed asteroid.
* CharacterTics: Gregory Powell sometimes pulls at the ends of his mustache when he's nervous. In this story, he tries to do that while wearing a spacesuit.
* EleventyZillion: When Powell is emphasizing how many parts of DV-5 could be responsible for the conflict in this story, he says there's "upty-ump thousand other individual pieces of complexity that can be wrong."
* EurekaMoment: Powell's moment of clarity occurs just in time for them to shoot one of the subsidiary robots, getting Dave to work again. Using the analogy of subsidiary=finger, Powell realized that the dancing and marching was due to Dave "twiddling his fingers" while he worked out what needed to be done.
* FictionalDocument: Gregory Powell always keeps a copy of the ''Handbook of Robotics'' nearby. A NoodleIncident is referenced where he would've ran out of a burning building naked rather than lose his copy.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Powell and Donovan are worried that failing to solve the [[AIIsACrapshoot bugs]] during field testing will cause them to lose their jobs. They refer to the company's unofficial motto; "No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time."
* InSeriesNickname: The DV series robot is unofficially called 'Dave'.
* MachineMonotone:
** The DV-5 model robot is designed with an "excellent" diaphragm that allows him to use a wider range of inflections and tones. This is in contrast to earlier models who speak with "metallic flatness".
** The subsidiary units to DV-5 are not given the same diaphragm and programming for inflection. When Powell and Donovan interview a "finger", its answers are given by rote, without enthusiasm or interest.
* RobotNames: The DV series model is of a central robot with six additional robots networked to function as subsidiary systems. The central robot is officially [[YouAreNumberSix DV-5]] (and [[InSeriesNickname unofficially]] Dave), while the first of the subsidiaries is DV-5-2.
* TitleDrop: Powell reminds Donovan that the first step in cooking rabbit stew is catching the rabbit. This is an analogy, that they first must figure out [[AIIsACrapshoot what is going wrong]] before they can solve the problem.
* UnusualEuphemism: In addition to a few expressions typical for the 1950s, Powell and Donovan use space-based expletives to express frustration/surprise. They say things like "Holy-howling-Jupiter" or "Jumping Space".
* YouAreNumberSix: The DV series model is of a central robot with six additional robots networked to function as subsidiary systems. The central robot is officially [[RobotNames DV-5]] (and [[InSeriesNickname unofficially]] Dave), while the first of the subsidiaries is DV-5-2.
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In the asteroid belt, Powell and Donovan are working with a new prototype robot, DV-5 (also known as [[InSeriesNickname Dave]]). Dave's design is a central robot with six additional robots networked to function as subsidiary devices. They function within acceptable parameters while supervised, but under certain conditions they stop working for hours at a time. The pair of field testers worry that if they don't figure out how to fix it (or at least what's causing it) they'll lose their jobs. Unfortunately, during one of their covert observations, they get trapped by a cave-in while Dave is malfunctioning. If they can't get him to work properly, they'll die.
"Catch That Rabbit" has been reprinted four times; ''Literature/IRobot'' (1951), ''Literature/TheCompleteRobot'' (1982), ''{{Literature/Robur}} 10'' (1985), and ''Literature/TheAsimovChroniclesFiftyYearsOfIsaacAsimov'' (1989).
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!!"Catch That Rabbit" provides examples of:
* AIIsACrapshoot: DV-5 is designed to be a central robot with six additional robots networked to function as subsidiary units. It ''should'' be capable of [[AsteroidMiners mining asteroids]] without supervision. At least, that's what the engineers who built him say. Field testers Gregory Powell and Mike Donovan have discovered a problem, and they'll [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity lose their jobs]] if they can't figure out a solution soon.
-->"There's still the possibility of a mechanical breakdown in the body. That leaves about fifteen hundred condensers, twenty thousand individual electric circuits, five hundred vacuum cells, a thousand relays, and upty-ump thousand other individual pieces of complexity that can be wrong. And these mysterious positronic fields no one knows anything about."
* ArtificialIntelligence: DV-5 is a robot with a positronic brain that gives it human-level intelligence. The subsidiary units are less complex, but still capable of natural language processing.
-->a mass of condensers, circuits, relays, and vacuum cells that can handle practically any psychological reaction known to humans. And a positronic brain, which with ten pounds of matter and a few quintillions of positrons runs the whole show.
* AsteroidMiners: The DV-5 unit is expected to automate asteroid mining, so Powell and Donovan are testing him out on an unnamed asteroid.
* CharacterTics: Gregory Powell sometimes pulls at the ends of his mustache when he's nervous. In this story, he tries to do that while wearing a spacesuit.
* EleventyZillion: When Powell is emphasizing how many parts of DV-5 could be responsible for the conflict in this story, he says there's "upty-ump thousand other individual pieces of complexity that can be wrong."
* EurekaMoment: Powell's moment of clarity occurs just in time for them to shoot one of the subsidiary robots, getting Dave to work again. Using the analogy of subsidiary=finger, Powell realized that the dancing and marching was due to Dave "twiddling his fingers" while he worked out what needed to be done.
* FictionalDocument: Gregory Powell always keeps a copy of the ''Handbook of Robotics'' nearby. A NoodleIncident is referenced where he would've ran out of a burning building naked rather than lose his copy.
* GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity: Powell and Donovan are worried that failing to solve the [[AIIsACrapshoot bugs]] during field testing will cause them to lose their jobs. They refer to the company's unofficial motto; "No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time."
* InSeriesNickname: The DV series robot is unofficially called 'Dave'.
* MachineMonotone:
** The DV-5 model robot is designed with an "excellent" diaphragm that allows him to use a wider range of inflections and tones. This is in contrast to earlier models who speak with "metallic flatness".
** The subsidiary units to DV-5 are not given the same diaphragm and programming for inflection. When Powell and Donovan interview a "finger", its answers are given by rote, without enthusiasm or interest.
* RobotNames: The DV series model is of a central robot with six additional robots networked to function as subsidiary systems. The central robot is officially [[YouAreNumberSix DV-5]] (and [[InSeriesNickname unofficially]] Dave), while the first of the subsidiaries is DV-5-2.
* TitleDrop: Powell reminds Donovan that the first step in cooking rabbit stew is catching the rabbit. This is an analogy, that they first must figure out [[AIIsACrapshoot what is going wrong]] before they can solve the problem.
* UnusualEuphemism: In addition to a few expressions typical for the 1950s, Powell and Donovan use space-based expletives to express frustration/surprise. They say things like "Holy-howling-Jupiter" or "Jumping Space".
* YouAreNumberSix: The DV series model is of a central robot with six additional robots networked to function as subsidiary systems. The central robot is officially [[RobotNames DV-5]] (and [[InSeriesNickname unofficially]] Dave), while the first of the subsidiaries is DV-5-2.
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