Well we know in the year 1240 the answer was 0 and in 1241 it was 0. So we know that the number of robots is increasing at a rate of zero per year. If we follow that trend to today, we get 0 (robots in 1240) + 786 (years since 1240) * 0 (robots per year) = 0 robots in 2026.
at least one
i would prefer not to use auction style estimates
If you aren’t going to define what a robot is, at least for this thread, you will get nothing but estimates based on feels.
im not wrong
Eleventy billion
I’m going to count that as (11*t)*1,000,000,000 and use it as a statistical bumper in the final analisis
as a full autonomous, just one, zuckerborg.
Umpteen.
Whose definition of robot are you using? Mechanical servant? Android? Self-navigating electronics?
Is an artificial limb a robot?
Since everyone but me is an npc, i’d say about 8.3 billion minus 1
Fourteenteen
irobot as of 2024 sold 50 million roomba says bing
50 thousand give or take 10 thousand.
For me active means in motion, floating on water, where that motion (net of tides and currents) was exclusively caused by human operated oars or paddles.
The Danish navy re-floating a load of viking longships to prepare for WWIII does not count; due to the wind assistance.
Automotive industry uses lots of robots. There’s little manual work in the production of cars nowadays. I would guesstimate there are hundreds of thousands of robots.





