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Single-Task Robot
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Robots can be designed to carry out a lot of different tasks, some of them can do them all at the same time, but the majority of them are designed for only one thing. This trope is about robots designed to do only one (very specific) type of work by their creators. They could be for personal service (and fetishes), for business, sports, entertainment and even for war. No matter which task they're created, they're supposed to do only that thing and nothing else. Contrast Do-Anything Robot, which is the opposite of this trope. Compare In the Future, We Still Have Roombas, which is about how robots are nondescript machines for mundane labor. Related to Superpowered Robot Meter Maids, Robot Soldier and Mecha-Mooks. See also Crippling Overspecialization in the case of humans. |
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Tom and Jerry: Mechano the Cat of Tomorrow, aka the "Push Button Kitty," was all about catching a mouse ("no feedin', no fussin', and no fur"). Its arsenal, however, would have been worthy of a hammerspaced Do-Anything Robot (mini-mallet and broom, slingshot, tennis racquet, ax, cigarette lighter, catcher's mitt, kitchen knives, circular buzzsaw, train whistle, dynamite). | |
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Rick and Morty features a robot whose sole purpose is to pass the butter to Rick when Rick is having breakfast. It still has full self-awareness, and gets depressed at how lame its only purpose is. | |
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Roofus the roof-repairing robot from The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!. Actually a subverted example, as the robot turned out to be sentient due to its construction done too well. | |
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Boonie Bears: In Season 7 Episode 12, Logger Vick purchases a vacuum robot to clean his room. The robot becomes an annoyance when he realizes it will attempt to clean any gunk it finds on anyone's clothes or skin. Later, the bears find Logger Vick has left the robot out in the open and it cleans up their trash, only to do the same "clean up gunk on the nearest persons" routine on the bears. | |
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Factorio involves the player building robots to extract materials from an alien world with which to assemble a spaceship and stock it with sufficient provisions. Of course, each robot can only perform one task: digging, drilling, plowing, seeding, et cetera. Further robots must be built whose sole purpose is to convey one robot's output to another robot for further processing; this is likely to include an automated railroad for moving materials in bulk. All these mostly stationary robots, however, impinge on the planet's wildlife, causing them to revolt and stampede these robots to reclaim their territory. This necessitates constructing defense robots to impede the renegade critters. | |
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Red Dwarf has "The Talkie Toaster", which can do anything you want, so long as all you want is toasted bread products. | |
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Our Miss Brooks: In "Transition Show", Vice Principal Oliver Munsey shows Miss Brooks the robot he built. Its main purpose is an automatic pencil sharpener. Still, not too bad for 1956! | |
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In WALL•E, most robots have a specific function. Wall-E himself is designed to process trash, despite having an AI capable of falling in love. | |
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Futurama Bender "Bending" Rodriguez was designed and built specifically for bending metals. In theory he's supposed to be a bending-unit that is only capable of bending girders—it was once claimed he was even further restricted to only angles from 30 to 32 degree. In practice, he's a Do-Anything Robot. It's occasionally brought up that he is supposed to be just for bending stuff, but only when Rule of Funny requires it. Other known examples of robots designed for one only job include Robot Santa, Hedonism Bot, Don Bot, Robot Devil and Kwanzaabot. An extreme example: the world champion baseball batter is a Robot Athlete that is simply a box with an arm holding the bat. When Fry and Leela complain it has an unfair advantage, Bender accuses them of prejudice. |
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In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: I Love Wolffy, the Bye-Bye Machine, when triggered by the word "inexplicable", raises its hand, says "Bye-bye!", and teleports whatever is in front of it to a random place. | |
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In Warhammer 40,000, you can become one. Since (after one inevitable machine rebellion) creating true AIs is considered a blasphemy, tasks that would be given to single-task robots are instead given to servitors — cyborg slaves lobotomised to keep them "single purpose" and focused on their tasks. | |
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Blade Runner features some of the most humanlike robots ever conceived (in fact, one might argue they're not really robots but Gattaca Babies used as slaves under the pretext of technology), but in their profile, each is listed as being designed for a specific role in society. | |
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This is the central conceit of the Twitter feed small robots: each robot does precisely one thing. They've been known to get a bit sarcastic with people who ask "But why couldn't the robot do this similar task?" since the answer is always because it's not the robot's job to do the similar task. (It doesn't help that some of them are a bit esoteric: Bigbot's function is apparently to be "too big".) | |
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My Life as a Teenage Robot have various one-job robots seen on the series, mostly at a technology exposition. One episode was based around Jenny treating the robots running an amusement park as fully sapient and independent, while Tuck insisted they were just machines meant for single tasks (in this case running a carnival). Tuck was right, but that doesn't keep Jenny from "liberating" them into a world they have no ability to function in. | |
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In episode 16 of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Joys of Seasons, the first thing Wolffy ever invented is shown to be a comfort robot that comforts anybody nearby if they are sad. | |
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Mega Man (Classic): Many of the robots Mega Man fights were meant to do a specific task before being modified for combat use. E.g Guts Man was used to work on construction sites to lift heavy weights and rocks, Dynamo Man was used as emergency power source and a tour guide to power plants (he especially likes guiding children around), Crystal Man was Dr. Wily's source of income by forming crystals that he can sell away, etc. | |
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The Fal'Cie from Final Fantasy XIII are half-organic, half-mechanical beings. They are created with a specific task, and despite being sentient, cannot go against that task. For example, Phoenix' task is to act as the sun, Kujata's is to be a power plant, and Carbuncle's is to oversee the food production system. There are also many minor, unnamed Fal'Cie whose task is as mundane as automatic doors. | |
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Mega Man Mega Man (Classic): Many of the robots Mega Man fights were meant to do a specific task before being modified for combat use. E.g Guts Man was used to work on construction sites to lift heavy weights and rocks, Dynamo Man was used as emergency power source and a tour guide to power plants (he especially likes guiding children around), Crystal Man was Dr. Wily's source of income by forming crystals that he can sell away, etc. Played With in Mega Man X: On the one hand, the Reploids' thought process is similar to a human in that they can potentially choose what job to take. On the other hand, for those reploids which are designed to look like humanoid animals, their bodies are often fitted with capabilities that seem like they could only do a certain task or a selection from a few. For example, Storm Eagle, with his flight and wind powers, fits his job on being a commander of an air force unit, while Chill Penguin, with his ice powers, is tasked with exploring the Antarctic. Some chooses not to follow this pattern, i.e Grizzly Slash working as an Arms Dealer (his claw and drill at least helps creating the cave for his secret base) or Infinity Mijinion (a small reploid who can multiply himself) working to design and man large weaponry. |
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Colobot has various types of robots who, aside from being able to freely move around, are designed for a very specific type of task and can only perform that one type of task. This includes: Target bots, whose entire purpose is to be something to shoot at; Transporter bots, who can grab onto things and thus transport them; Sniffer bots, who can only examine the ground underneath them for minerals; Shooter bots, who are only able to shoot at things; Subber bots, who can grab onto things that are underwater; Recycler bots, who can recycle destroyed bots and recover resources from them; Shielder bots, who can create a protective shield around themselves; Thumper bots, who can hit the ground underneath them and send a shockwave that will stun enemy lifeforms around them. |
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In episode 30 of Happy Heroes, Doctor H. invents a robot called Little Cutie whose only function is to clean up trash by compressing it into a cube. This turns out to be a bad thing for Doctor H. and the Supermen when the former programs it to only compact objects into cubes if anybody calls them "useless". | |
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