London-based charity Landmine Action wants autonomous robots capable of killing people banned under the same kind of treaty that has outlawed landmines in over 150 countries.
Machine-gun wielding military robots are currently remotely controlled by soldiers. But the US Department of Defence wants them in future to work without supervision, meaning they would have to make their own decisions about when to pull the trigger.
Noel Sharkey, a roboticist at Sheffield University, UK, raised the profile of these plans when he condemned them earlier this month.
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