[monochrom] Military Robots and the Laws of War

[das ende der nahrungskette]

It isn't just on the ground: military robots have 
been taking to the skies—and the seas and space, 
too. And the field is rapidly aadvancing. The 
robotic systems now rolling out in prototype 
stage are far more capable, intelligent, and 
autonomous than ones already in service in Iraq 
and Afghanistan. But even they are just the 
start. As one robotics executive put it at a 
demonstration of new military prototypes a couple 
of years ago, "The robots you are seeing here 
today I like to think of as the Model T. These 
are not what you are going to see when they are 
actually deployed in the field. We are seeing the 
very first stages of this technology." And just 
as the Model T exploded on the scene—selling only 
239 cars in its first year and over one million a 
decade later—the demand for rrobotic warriors is growing very rapidly.

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