Part 7: When War Becomes A Video Game

by David Axe Dean Fleischer-Camp Rus Garofalo Morgan Currie Lindsay Utz Labour Andrew Bouvé Justin Fines

November 12, 2008

We've learned about robots that spy, rescue, aid, survey, and defuse. In the final episode of our "Military Robots" series, we encounter robots that kill. Robots equipped with missiles and guns are a relatively new development, one that raises a host of ethical questions. In the wars of the future, will the killing of humans be left entirely to machines?LEARN MOREFoster-Miller, Inc.

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