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Usually people relate 'army' with the military connotation.

But sometimes you can say 'army of robots' which not always you mean they've military backgrounds or they're armed, but friendly one. Another example includes 'Army of Jesus' or 'Salvation Army', and of course they've nothing to do with weapons and real army either.

Is there any alternative term which aims to describe the huge number of entities (like people or robots) in similar matter as 'army', but without being ambiguous that it has something to do with military, but to not lessen its meaning of its force?

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    synonyms: crowd, swarm, multitude, horde, host, mob, gang, throng, stream, mass, body, band, troop, legion, flock, herd, pack, drove, sea, array; literary: myriad
    – NVZ ♦
    Commented Aug 5, 2016 at 16:39
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    legion of robots, swarm of robots, multitude of robots,a flock, an array, a sea of, a mob, a throng...
    – P. O.
    Commented Aug 5, 2016 at 16:41
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    Legion would be the right word I think.
    – kenorb
    Commented Aug 5, 2016 at 16:41
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    @kenorb Except of course that legion is a military term having a similar meaning to army.
    – MetaEd
    Commented Aug 5, 2016 at 17:03
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    "Army". One might say, eg, that "an army of accountants" pored over the books of the corporation.
    – Hot Licks
    Commented Aug 5, 2016 at 17:47

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You may refer to a swarm of robots (credit to @P.Obertelli).

See Wikipedia's Swarm Robotics

Example: "There is something magical about seeing 1,000 robots move, when humans are not operating any of them. In a new study published in Science, researchers have achieved just that. This swarm of 1,000 robots can assemble themselves into complex shapes without the need for a central brain or a human controller. [source]

For a group of persons, you may informally use the word "raft".

Example: A raft of people turned up to hear the famous man speak.

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