A new census of the world's robot population reveals disturbing negative robot population growth, but still, our fleshless offspring's numbers point to a machinery future:
Some 20,000 domestic-help robots were sold worldwide last year, half designed to mow lawns. Vacuum-cleaning robots were introduced late in 2001 and a study in Sweden found that 5,000 were sold in the last two months of the year. Window-cleaning robots are set to boom, said the U.N. study.
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