Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Catch That Rabbit

1. What was the problem that Donovan and Powell were having with Dave?
2. Describe at least three actions that Donovan and Powell took to remedy the problem.
3. What ia a "finger" as described in the chapter?
4. What miscalculation endangered Donovan and Powell's lives?
5. Eventually, how was the problem solved?

47 comments:

Jlemons said...

1. They had the problem that every time an accident happend dave would go crazy and lose radio caontact.

2. They attempted to watch dave as he worked to drill the meteor. Also they gave him an examination, and tried to find the exact part that was messed up.

3. A finger is a sister robot to Dave that helps and follows his orders.

4. The miscalculation that Donovan and Powell made was where they detonated the bomb to cause the accident. They detonated it around them and they were trapped.

5. The problem was solved when they killed one of Dave's robots and contacted Dave to get him to help. The problem was that when accidents happened he was at full capacity of communication, but when he hurt one of the fingers, Dave could make contact with Donovan and Powell

hahaa,erica! said...
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Loreal Spencer said...
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kenyata said...

1. The problem that they were having was that the robots werent bringing in ore.
2.They watced more, started building another robot,and made sure the robots did there jobs more.
3.The finger talked about in the chapter is more one of a robot or alien thing and not of the same anology of the human finger.
4. The tunneling. the tunneling made them cave in and they were stuck. and a robot got stuck in th tunnel
5.they got 6 fingers attantion after they got the robots head out.

Loreal Spencer said...
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c.floyd said...

1. Dave was having problems with his fingers.
2. They use a positronic brain, check any individual item in the body, and install a visiplate.
3. They are called the subsidiaries.
4. The amount of oxygen they have.
5. The problem was solved by finding all seven robots.

Phillip said...

1.He was having problems with his hands
2. Check the body, Install a visiplate, Posotrinic brain
3. The is refered to as a subsidarie in the book.
4.they didnt get enough air.
5. They found allof the robots

kay kay said...

1. He forgot to do something that was very important, such as mining.
2.he rolled out his stomach, then grabed his hair. he also idk.
3. I think he is one of the robots that one of the humans is in charge of.
4.they only have 2 days to figure out some details,and watch 6 robots.
5.they took a logical guess.

Unknown said...

1.the problem between them is that dave got lost in orbit.

2.they searched,navagated and waited.

3.a robot that is used to touch things that humans cant.

4.the time they had of air to breathe.

5.the robots to means into their own hands and disobeyed them to save them.

hahaa,erica! said...

hahaa,erica! said...
1.Donovan and Powell could not figure out why he would malfunction when they were not around.
2.First they tried to catch him in the act with their own eyes. Then they tried to set up cameras so they could see them.They asked him personaly what was going on.

3.A finger is like the helper robot
he assisit and takes order from a more important robot.They were called also subsidiaries.
4.They thought they had enough time to get to dave and the subsidiares before it collapsed and they died.

5.they killed one of daves fingers and told Dave to get him to help. The problem was that when accidents happened he could cumunicate, but when he hurt one of the fingers, Dave could contact donovan and powell.

Loreal Spencer said...

1. Something was going on in the area Dave was working;he wasn't collecting orbs. When Powell and Donovan confronted him he acted as if he had amnesia.

2. Three actions Donovan and Powell took to remedy the problem to monitor Dave and the other Robots behavior up front. They tried to monitor them from the camera. They also tried to monitor them from the vents or the shaft.

3. The "finger" had a curious air of reciting by rote, as if he answered questions by the mechanical pressure of his brain pan, but without enthusiasm.

4. They tried to create an avalanche to bury the robots but missed the shot therefore closed them in the tunnel.

5. The problem was solved when Dave saved them.

kay kay said...

1. the robot Dave he collected oil.
2.The humans had to observe the robot to see the issue.

nadya.burrell said...

1.) Dave was not filling the cars with ore on the daily.
2.) They ran a test on him, observe him, and try to interview a subsidiaries.
3.) A finger is the subsidiaries of Dave.
4.) The miscalculation that endangered their lives was when they tried to snapp Dave back into normal when the shock caved them in.
5.) The problem was solved by Dave rescuing them during the cave-in.

c.floyd said...

1. The robots couldn't collect the ore.
2. They tried wanted to watch Dave to see if he was he was working on the drilling the meteor.
3. The finger is like a robot that helps.
4. They needed enough time to get to the subsidiaries.
5. The problem was solved when Dave saved Donavan and Powell's lives.

Phillip said...

1. The problem they were having was thatthe robot would not collect aby oil they kept messing up.

2. The three actions they took were. They tried to watch, And the searched every piece in his body.

3. A finger in the chapter is described as a mini robot in a subsimarie.

4. The miscalculation was that they didnt get enough air.

5. the problem was solved by finding all seven robots.

kiera lockley said...

1. When there is not a human is not Dave he does no work and starts acting wierd but when a human comes back around he snaps back to normal

2. 1st watch his every move with a camera
2nd take turns on shifts
3rd stay close but not to close for the robots to sense them.

3. A finger is the subsidary robot under Dave.

4. Well the miscalculation that endangered their life is when they used something to cause a cave in but the cave in happened at the position of where theey were and not where the robots were.

5. They said that having 6 subsidaries was causing Dave to act the way he was so Powell knocked out one of the subsidaries and that brought him back to normal.

Unknown said...

1. They had the problem that every time an accident happend dave would go crazy and lose radio caontact.

2. They attempted to watch dave as he worked to drill the meteor. Also they gave him an examination, and tried to find the exact part that was messed up.

3. A finger is a sister robot to Dave that helps and follows his orders.

4. The miscalculation that Donovan and Powell made was where they detonated the bomb to cause the accident. They detonated it around them and they were trapped.

5. The problem was solved when they killed one of Dave's robots and contacted Dave to get him to help. The problem was that when accidents happened he was at full capacity of communication, but when he hurt one of the fingers, Dave could make contact with Donovan and Powell

unrealatl11 said...

1. Dave was not reprting all the events that were happining or completing all of his task to Donavon and Powell

2. They talked to dave
They questioned the finger
THey observed teh workers

3. One of the robots controlled by dave

4. When they were in the tunnel and the ceiling caved in on them

5. He was controlling to many robots, They destroied one robot.


Brandon TRammell

Martin Owens said...

1. The problem with Dave was that he wasn't taking the right orders.

2. The three actions they took were they ran experiments and they interigated him and then they observed him.

3. The "finger" in this chapter is one of the other robots that Dave controls.

4. The miscalculation they put there life in danger was when they planned for a cave in but not were they were going to be.

5. They determined the problem was that Dave was in control of six robots which gave him to much power so they checked all his circut boards and they took on of his six robots he was controling away.

Unknown said...

1)Dave was not coming back on schedule and wasn't bringing in any ore.
2)They observed Dave and the "fingers", they questioned a finger, and ran a series of tests.
3)A finger is a subsidiarie robot.
4)They didn't plan on the cave in happening where they were, so they got trapped in the tunnel.
5)They determined that Dave had to much initiative with ordering six robots, they removed one and the initiative decreased so he went back to normal.

J.C. said...

1. The problem that they were having with Dave the robot was that Dave kept taking command and not doing his job.

2. First, they had to watch Dave as he worked, they had to give him examinations and they had to stay close to him.

3. The finger was the girl robot to Dave who took his orders.

4. The miscalculation that could've endangered Powell and Donavan lives was they detonated to cause an accident and they ended up getting trapped.

5. They determined that Dave went off into a meronic maze, and they had to kill one Dave's robots to contact Dave to get him to help.

Unknown said...

1. The robot wasn't doing it's job and couldn't remember why. Then Donovan and Powell couldn't figure out the problem.

2. -Question one of the robots
-Snap Dave out of it each time
he did something wrong
-Spy on Dave through a visiplate

3. A "finger" is one of the six robots under the control of Dave; a sub-robot.

4. They accidently caved themselves in while trying to make an fake emergency.

5. Having six robots under his control gave Dave to much initiative, so they removed one of the sub-robots.

asveen said...

1.the problem that dave was having was he was not getting ore and doesnt remember why he is where he is.
2.the actions that they took are to follow him and when he does something wrong make him snap out of it and took a test to check his brain and interview a subsidiaries.

3.A finger in the chapter is used as 6 subsidiaries are part of dv-5 like human fingers are part of us and gives them orders by positronic fields.

4.they think finding out what order dave gives just before everything goes black by making a avalance and missed the shot and got trapped in the cave.

5.under simple conditions one finger would do routine tasks but in emergency all 6 susidiaries have to mobilized immediately any deacrease in initiative snaps him back. they solved it by destrpying 1 finger and the intiative deacreases and he is normal.

Diz iz 4 me Fanz said...

1. They had a feeling that he was lying to them. Because things started to go wrong and they couldn't figure out the problem nor could they solve it.
2.
*They tested Dave but everytime they were in close range to him he worked properly but when they weren't something went wrong.
*They interviewed the finger
*They took shifts trying to see if and when something went wrong.
3.The finger to me seems as a robot itself but is linked to Dave. It had its own indiviual brain and it talked as a robot, however just as Dave he was hiding something.
4. While in a tunnel trying to point a laser to cause an avalanche the robots were working on that same tunnel causing them to be stuck between, and if not out in time they would die from lack of oxygen and the robots work.
5.They tried to shoot the laser in Dave's direction hoping that he would stop and come to help because he couldn't hear them and that was the only way. Dave at the end came to help.

phxmvp13 said...

1. The problem with Robbie was that he wouldn't produce iron ore.

2. First Donovan and Powell tested his functions, then they interogated him , last they flood they mines to see how he reacts in the event of an emergency.

3. The finger is derscibed as the robot under Robbie's control.

4. Donovan miscaluted when flooding the mines.

5. Its was that whe wasn't transmitting six way orders. To solve this they went through the circuits and checked off each part that got an extra workout in a six way order vs a five way.

Do Try said...

1)The problem was that the robot, Dave, did not bring iron ore back any ore.

2)He first checked the robot's brain, the path he took, and check the whole robot. They brought the robot to there lab. They interagated him to try to make him tell them. They also asked him questions to check if he was lieing.

3)A figner is a robot that can talk and is just like a human finger. It had a fairly developed brain.He was under control of Dave.

4) They made a bomb and detonated it. This cause them to get trapped in the cave.

5)Powell used logic to figure out what they need. They need to go through the ciruit and check off each they part.The checked the parts that get a workout.

Rod Sims said...

1)He was not producing ore at a constant rate. He was somehow dostracted and off task.
2)First Dave was given a basic test to test how he functioned. then they interrogated the "finger". They also supervised him (Dave) during his work.
3) A "finger" is one of the six robots that Dave controls. It is described to have the anatomy of a finger.
4)The miscaculation that Donovan and Powell made was thinking that Dave was doing things under an order instead of a specific orde, instead of a specific type of order.
5) the problem with Dave was that he was doing to much. As said in the book he needed an "initiative decrease". It was solved by shooting one of the robots.

christallee said...

1.He is not able to quite handle the fact that he is eqipped to handle six subsidiares in direct coordination he is not yet funtioning with this process.
2. They tested him to see how he would funtion.They interrogated him to see if he could identify what was wrong.They made him sit through a test to determine if he could handle it.
3.The finger is one of the subsidiares that are controlled by dave. With a fairly developed brain, but the brain was tuned primarily to the reception of orders via positronic field and the reactin to independent stimuli was rather fumbling.
4.They planned a cave in to see how the robots would react but instead when the cave in occured the became trapped themselves instead of the robots.
5. Any decrease in initiative required such as the arrival of humans, snaps Dave back. He destroyed one of the robots, when he did dave only transmitted five-way orders. Initiative Decrease and daves back to normal.

Unknown said...

1. the robots needed ore

2. They began running tests on him and tried to monitor him

3. THe finger is a susidaire

4.The miscalculation is they didnt get enough air.

5.The problem was when they found all 7 robots.

diandra said...

1. dave was a stable robot eqiupped with 6 subsidiaries in direct coordination, but he was not yet able to use this process no his own.

2. they have tested him to see ho Dave would function using this process.
they also made him sit through a type of test to see if Dave was stable to handle it.
they intergated him to see if he could identify what answers he thought were wrong.

3. A finger is the subsidiaries of Dave.

4. Donovan and Powell made a miscalculation that they were detonated the bomb to cause the accident. they put it around them and they were trapped.

5. The problem was solved when they killed one of Dave's robots and contacted Dave to get him to help.

Ferleria said...

1.Dave was loosing his memory. He wasn't functioning correctly. He couln't collect the ore.
2. They looked at his mind, followed him, and interviewed the finger.
3. The robots work under Dave. Dave controls them.
4. tehy make a mistake and miss their target and are trapped in a cave.
5. He was loosing his memory and the way to solve it was by destroying noe of the fingers.

Bryant Eubanks said...

1. The problem they are having with Dave is that Dave is not producing ore.
2. Donovan & Powell first tried to reprogram Dave. They also observed while Dave was working. They also test it by it malfunctioning.
3. The finger is a symbol for the the subsidaries that Dave control.
4. Dave launched an object and missed and got lock itself in cave.
5. Donovan & Powell determined that one of the robots was the problem, so they killed it

Austin said...

1. The problem that Donovan and Powell had with Dave is that they couldn't produce more robots.

2. 3 actions that Donovan and Powell take to remedy the problem are reprogram it, test it, and observed when Dave was working.

3. A finger is a symbol for the subsidarts.

4. Dave launched a object and missed and he was trapped in a cave.

5. Donovan and Powell determined that Dave's problem was a robot was shot. When they shot the robot the robot started acting right. The robots were acting up because Dave had too many robots under him.

Anonymous said...

1.Dave is not working unless they watch him.
2. I. McCormack-Wesley test
II.Install a viaplate to monitor his work
III. They asked Dave himself.
3. A "finger" is a subsidiary robot.
4.They tried to trap Dave but they trapped themselves too.
5. There were too many robots under Dave's control, and Powell/Donvan shot one of the fingers.

Bryant Eubanks said...

Dave had stopped producing ore.


They tried to monitor them from the camera. They also tried to monitor them from the vents or the shaft.


A finger is the subsidary robot under Dave.

The miscalculation that Donovan and Powell made was where they detonated the bomb to cause the accident.

Robots lost attention. So 1 had to be shot to gain its attention.

Unknown said...

1.Dave wasn't instructing the other robots to do their job producing ore.
2.They wanted to give dave a M.W. test, a sitting test, and spy on hime while working.
3.Dave is in control of six other robots called fingers.
4.They tried to cause a cave in with five robots but there were still six robots.
5.They had six robots but, they had to shoot one in order to get dave back under their control.

Bryant Eubanks said...

Dave had stopped producing ore.


They tried to monitor them from the camera. They also tried to monitor them from the vents or the shaft.


A finger is the subsidary robot under Dave.

The miscalculation that Donovan and Powell made was where they detonated the bomb to cause the accident.

Robots lost attention. So 1 had to be shot to gain its attention.

Jerion Watkins

true baller said...

Henry Brooks
wikipedia.com

Robotics is the science technology of robots. Robotics require electronics, mechanics, and software. They usually have a big working knowledge of a lot of subjects. The structure of a robot is mostly mechanical, which can be called kinematic chain. This chain is formed by links which you can call their bones and actuators (its muscles.also joints which can allow more degrees of freedom. Robots used as manipulators have an end effector connected to the last link. The end effector can be anything from a welding device to a mechanical hand used to mess with the enviorment.

Henry Brooks-true baller

Rod Sims said...

Sending robots to surgery pays off
By Barnaby J. Feder
Published: May 4, 2008

an article that i read was similiar to the programmming we are doing. this article talke about how robots were becoming more advanced. this article was mainly about how their are companies biulding robots that are able to be surgeons. they are doing

Unknown said...

ROBOTS LEARN NAVIGATION TRICKS FROM ANTS
By Sara Goudarzi, LiveScience Staff Writer posted: 18 April 2006 10:05 am ET

Scientists are using the way that ants navigate and implementing it into robots. For ants have to go back to their nest to remember how to get back and they do this constantly with longer trips.
Autonomous robots are using this method and are becoming more reliable.
Ants use landmarks to find their way and a backup system called a "path integrator." Measuring the distance traveled and using an internal compass. This helps it find straight shots back home even if the outbound trip traveled is a maze.
All of this is a way to make a robot more reliable.

http://www.livescience.com/animals/060418_ant_navigation.html

Unknown said...

Human-Like Robots

Scientists are now trying to create human-like robots that look just like us! Oh my God, thats amazing, yo! Can you imagine? Robots just like us?
Well, actualy they have already started creating them. Science is getting pretty advanced nowadays. You never know, maybe it will go as far as to create robots who can eat the same food as us!

omgahhh its chela!

Unknown said...

New Robot Looks Strikingly Human:

Creator Hiroshi Ishiguru has develope a robot so life-like that it's hard to tell the difference. Not only does the robot look like a human, but it can mimic natrual human movements. Such as, blinking, breathing, and small shifts in position. Even the robot's skin is human like. However, some seem to think that this advance in robots will make it hard in the future to distinguish the difference between humans and robots.

By Bill Christensen
posted: 28 June 2005 11:20 am ET

http://www.livescience.com/technolo
gy/050628_real_robot.html

J.C. said...

ROBOTIC SURGERY

This article is about how robots can perform surgery. Three major advances aided by surgical robots have been remote surgery, minimallty invasive surgery, and unmanned surgery. The advantages of these robots are precision and miniaturization. Other advantages of the robots are articulation and magnification. Some surgical robots are autonomous, and they are not always controled by surgeons. They are only sometimes used to extend the surgicl skills of a trained surgeon.

Jlemons said...

In 2003 there was an article posted in the national geographic about robots being used as companions to the elderly. Similar to C-3PO. They can be used to give reminders, watch children, deliver mail, and act as personal interactive computers. They can perform the roles of dogs that provide assistance but don't need the same up keep.

Robots are even being programmed to participate in Robo Cups. Hopes are for the robots in 2050 to be able to beat World Cup Champions.The Robocup has been going on for 12 years now since 1996. The Roboo cup is said to be a spring board of developing senses for robots like sight, touch, hearing, and smell.

kenyata said...

The Future Of Robots
The article I choose says "Human experience is marked by a refusal to obey our limitations. We´ve escaped the ground, we´ve escaped the planet, and now, after thousands of years of effort, our quest to build machines that emulate our own appearance, movement and intelligence is leading us to the point where we will escape the two most fundamental confines of all: our bodies and our minds." These scientist state that even though anciect Greeks were the first to build machinces they did not have as much intellegence as the ones of today or the future.But they did produce "European Renaissance, which produced the first androids with lifelike movements. These included a mandolin-playing lady, constructed in 1540 by Italian inventor Gianello Torriano. In 1772 Swiss watchmaker Pierre Jacquet-Droz built a pensive child named L´crivain (The Writer) that could write passages with a pen. L´crivain´s brain was a mechanical computer that was impressive for its complexity even by today´s standards." Such inventors help make the invention of today.
"The word â€robot†originated almost a century ago. Czech dramatist Karel Capek first used the term in his 1921 play R.U.R. (for â€Rossum´s Universal Robotsâ€), creating it from the Czech word â€robota,†meaning obligatory work."
Lastley the article says that today the robots are different but of the same imagination and that are starting to differ more and more for robots of the future.
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2006-09/future-robots

nadya.burrell said...

Issac Asimov
Born in Petrovichi, Russia when his family moved to the U.S. in 1923 to settle in New York. Issac was able to read before he reached the 1st grade. After leaving Boys High School in Brooklyn, he studied chemistry at Columbia University, New York. He graduated in 1939 and got his M.A. in 1941. Later in 1942, he marriedGertrude Blugerman and later had 2 kids.

Unknown said...

Here you'll find detailed descriptions of the activities of the Mobility and Robotic Systems Section, as well as related robotics efforts around the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They are approximately 100 engineers working on all aspects of robotics for space exploration and related terrestrial applications. We write autonomy software that drives rovers on Mars, and operations software to monitor and control them from Earth.They do the same for their instrument-placement and sampling arms, and are developing new systems with many limbs for walking and climbing.