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DV-5 was an unusual robot; besides being an asteroid mining robot, it was also able to direct six other less intelligent robots in mining activities.
The subsidiary robots were called "fingers."
The humans finally figure out what's going on with the strange movements of the subsidiary robots:
“That? I don't know. But I’ve got a notion. Remember, those subsidiaries were Dave’s ‘fingers’. We were always saying that, you know. Well, it’s my idea that in all these interludes, whenever Dave became a psychiatric case, he went off into a moronic maze, spending his time twiddling his fingers.”
There is also a lot of interest in the idea of robots that work cooperatively; see Bees Key to Cooperative Robotics for more information.
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