[LINK] Are Robots Still Just "Tools" When They Are Used to Kill?

[Paul Bolger]

I wondered whether this was something they had prepared for this sort
of situation, or something they cobbled together.

I'm not sure though that this approach is justifiable. If the operator
of the robot/remote unit is not under any danger from the offender are
they still under the legal protection of 'killing to save themselves'.
I suspect not.

On 11 July 2016 at 13:59, Jim Birch <planetjim at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Robot kill" sounds spooky but this was not really a robot in the sense of
> an autonomous machine - it's just another technologically advanced weapon.
> A heat-seeking missile is more autonomous than this robot.
>
> Jim
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