Banning robot workers doesn't seem to dismantle existing ones.

[ChristesII]

I'm playing my first game now, and I've got an empire that controls most of the galaxy. To deal with unemployment, I decided to outlaw robot workers. The tooltip said that this will:

• Stop new robots from being made (this has happened)
• Automatically remove robot armies (this has also happened)
• Automatically disassemble existing robots (this has not happened)

Am I missing something in regard to the last bullet point? The policy has been in effect for about a year and the robot population has not gone down at all.

More generally: How can I deal with rampant unemployment in the late game? Most planets are maxed out now.

 

[Flo122]

Regarding the robots: I have the same problem - and when I switched the citizenship rights from "servitude" to "undesirables" it flipped back to "Residence", which I couldn't even select manually...maybe it just chose it because it is my empire default?