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Robot Sunday: World robot population

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April 18, 2010

The numbers are in (with caveats, of course): there are 8.6 million robots in the world.

Robot factory - Credit: Quasimondo from Flickr, under CC license

Credit: Quasimondo on Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0

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