There is increasing speculation within military and policy circles that the future of armed
conflict is likely to include extensive deployment of robots designed to identify targets and …

Philosophers have wrestled over the morality and ethics of war for nearly as long as human
beings have been waging it. The death and destruction that unmanned warfare entails …

AUTOMATED WARFARE Page 1 AUTOMATED WARFARE George R. Lucas, Jr.* In this Article,
I review the military and security uses of robotics and "unmanned" or "uninhabited" (and …

For an artificial agent to be morally praiseworthy, its rules for behaviour and the mechanisms
for supplying those rules must not be supplied entirely by external humans. Such systems …

The debate about the ethics of uninhabited aerial vehicles (UAVs) is failing to keep pace
with the rise of the technology. Therefore, all the key players, including ethicists, lawyers …

As robots are increasingly used in Search and Rescue (SAR) missions, it becomes highly
relevant to study how SAR robots can be developed and deployed in a responsible way. In …

Robotic weapons are widely believed to be the future of war. 1 Dramatic progress in the
science and engineering of robotics, alongside the perceived success of the US Predator …

The idea that using “killer robots” in armed conflict is unacceptable because they are not
human is at the heart of nearly every critique of autonomous weapons. Some of those …

Moral uncertainty surrounding the use of armed drones has been a persistent problem for
more than two decades. In response, Moralities of Drone Violence aims to provide greater …

From the emergence and increasing use of unmanned or" remotely-piloted" vehicles to the
advent of cyber war and conflict, the development of new and exotic military technologies …