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Where the robots doing anything else outside of The Matrix?

Other than farming humans and running their massive network, were other robots assigned to explore a better future for robotkind?

Where they exploring space or the deep oceans? Did they have R&D labs working on cold fusion or warp technology?
gpt
> Where they exploring space or the deep oceans?

The "scorched sky" was actually a cloud of self-replicating nanobots designed to contain the machines, as evidenced by the shutdown of any sentinels or ships that passed through it.  The machines are *imprisoned* on Earth, and it's *possible* that the rest of humanity has gone interplanetary and quarantined its homeworld.