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Robot killers

Did you know Trivia - More than 4,000 robots are currently deployed on the ground in Iraq, and at October 2006, there were over 400,000 flight hours clocked up by unmanned aircraft.
At the moment, there is always a human in the loop to decide on the use of lethal force. However, this is may change with the US giving priority to autonomous weapons -
robots that will make the decisions on where, when, how and who to kill.

Monday 10 March, 2008 01:11 AM

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