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The A9000 Robots were robots owned by Mr. Burns and made to be employees at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.

After Mr. Burns got a large bill to pay for the employees' health care, he decided to fire everyone and hire his intelligent kangaroos instead. However, Waylon Smithers informed him that the kangaroos would steal stationary supplies and run away. Smithers then suggested the robots to Mr. Burns.

After the unveiling of the robots, Mr. Burns fired everyone except for Homer as they needed one human employee to do things such as sign for packages. Mr. Burns even replaced Smithers with a robot.

Homer disliked his job as he had no one to talk to and the robots wouldn't interact with him. After accidentally breaking a robot, Homer read the A9000 Repair and Maintenance Manual and found out he could make them interact with him. After several failed attempts at getting them to do this (resulting in the robots being destroyed), he figured it out.