Astronomers battle plague of BLADE-WIELDING ROBOTS

Roomba makers' robo-lawnmowers will ruin science, Stargazers tell FCC

Updated Radio astronomers have moved to block the roll-out of an army of robotic lawnmowers in a submission to the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The boffins claim that iRobot's deployment of the machines will interfere with their federally-funded radio astronomy."