Freefall 1413
Robot tailors and robot consciousness
The colonists never found the root cause of why the neural nets didn't work.
They didn't have the tools or expertise to fix such a subtle problem. Their equipment was more basic.
One of the engineers referred to it as “trying to repair a butterfly's wing while blindfolded and using a hammer.”
The Sojourner Rover from Earth, currently on Mars © NASA
Hell, if I had an extra asteroid, I'd pawn it to buy this outfit (Robot Spike)