Every time I go for a jog in the wilderness, I am almost tripping over the bloody things.

It seems likely that after 200 years of wear and tear (not to mention robot hating deathclaws!) that they would actually be pretty rare outside of sealed facilities with maintenance support.
How can I reduce the numbers of 'wild' ones?

Any robot cleaning assistance much appreciated.

Post your load order, please, so that we can see the mods that may be effecting this issue for you

Sure, I suspect it is MMM, but here is what I'm running at the moment

Fallout3.esm
ThePitt.esm
Mart's Mutant Mod.esm
SimpleNeeds.esm
Fallout3BetterPaceMod.esp
Realistic Interior Lighting.esp
CASM.esp
TimeScaleTo15.esp
SimpleNeeds - The Pitt.esp
RI_Sleep2.esp
blanket.esp
Fellout-Full.esp
Fellout-SOTD.esp
Triage.esp
DK_BulletTime.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod.esp
BlackWolf Backpack.esp
CaravanUpgrades.esp
Owned!.esp
GeneratorSound.esp
RaiderMercenaryExpanded.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Hunting & Looting.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Increased Spawns.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Natural Selection.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Feral Ghoul Rampage.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - No Geckos.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - No Wanamingos.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - No Floaters.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Zones Respawn.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Reduced Wasteland Spawns.esp
Rude Awakening.esp
Rude Awakening - MMM.esp
NoStupidExplosiveCars.esp
Savage Wasteland - Fewer Gun Wielding Maniacs.esp
Echo_UseBothGloves.esp
DarkerInteriorsFallOut3.esp
DarkerInteriorsThePitt.esp
Directional PipLight.esp
FPS Grenade Hotkey.esp
weapon zoom.esp
DarNifiedUIF3.esp
Neunens Axes.esp
SRFBG.esp
CtR AI tactics.esp
CtR Stealth v2.2.esp
CtR PwrArmor v2.1.esp
CTR Wasteland and body v2.esp
CtR Weapons v2.esp
CtRealistic Ballistics v2.3.esp

You have both:
Mart's Mutant Mod - Increased Spawns.esp
Mart's Mutant Mod - Reduced Wasteland Spawns.esp

Does it say in the readme that you can use both?

It should work. 'Increased Spawns' Increases the number of NPC's per spawn. 'Reduced Spawns' lowers the chance of a random spawn by 12% They should be independent.

Yeah you can use both together. Increased Spawns basically increases the spawn number everywhere.
Reduced Wasteland spawns makes it so that each spawn point outside in the wasteland has a percentile chance not to spawn anything. You can activate both over the FWE menu as well

gurachn,
don't actually think you are actually experiencing any problem. Fallout always had alot of robots. You could modify the Leveled Creature lists (EncWasteland....) to decease the chance of robot spawning.

Actually, the only way to reduce the robots from appearing is to increase the chance of other creatures occurring instead. IIRC, there's only one entry in those lists for robots, it's just a matter of chance whether they appear or not. Increase the chance of having other creatures appearing, and less robots should spawn.

Thank you for the clarification crackshot91 and Kai Hohiro Good to know that bit of information!

Yeah, I didn't mean to give the impresson anything was broken, but it just seems very unlikely to me that there would be such a large number of metalic annoyances running around. With a level 6 character making a trip from Arefu to the Pitt tunnel I counted at least 4.
Wth no maintenance and being attacked by deathclaws and Yao guai, it seems unlikely that there would be any left just wandering about the wasteland.

I'm afraid though that I am not very clear on how the leveled lists work, hence this post.
I went and stripped all reference to robots out of the 'EncWasteland', 'EncWastelandTough', 'EncWastelandWeak' lists, and that seems to have markedly reduced the incidence of Robbie and his mates, but I did see at least one Protectron still wandering about (just before it was scrapped by a deathclaw), so I'm not sure exactly how he managed to slip in.
Somewhat interestingly, I also encounterd a large (~8) pack of dogs, half of whom seemed to be walking on their hind legs! Not sure if this relates in anyway to my changes though.

In addition, I upped MMM's Reduced Wasteland Spawns to 20%.
12 just seemed a bit too busy.

Ideally, I would like wasteland encounters to be fairly rare, but more deadly and definitely plausible.
Not sure if this is the best way to go about it, though, so any comments or suggestions most welcome.