The original statement on Tech World, in Third Imperium Magazine #4 is this:
"TECH- WORLD is populated by 30 scientist/technicians and several thousand robots. Its main industry is the production and export of
high-tech goods such as fusion guns, computers, and black globe generators".
But if you use that to say that the Pop rating is 1, then there are definitely people who will freak out that the robots should count and the population should be rated much higher. Because I've seen that exact argument repeatedly already with the existing Mongoose text of 4000 humans and 1 million robots.
You have other problems, like the flavor text of the world is that it is a giant factory, but its trade code is Non Industrial. Also, having a world producing black globe generators for export is a bit sus