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[Varche]

Here is a link to the moral/legal issues

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/A-View-from-the-United-Nations-/killer-robots-and-the-rul_b_3599657.html

I sort of find it fascinating just what kinds of things are being dreamt up. It doesn't take a genius to realise that the military have been keeping pace with technological developments that we all see and use.

One I particularly liked was a robot that could jump over a high perimeter fence from a standstill.

[05omegav6]

On the one hand, it could save alot of lives... but only if you had official war zones such as the Gobi desert or Greenland, say an area 100miles squared where remote armies could be let loose to slug things out... it needs a revolution of thought/diplomatic procedure to be viable though.

Where it becomes a moral issue is the use of such kit in a traditional war theatres  amongst the general populus... using drones to deliver weapons is borderline, and about as far as I would like to see this go...

[Rods2]

It will be a whole new sport for rednecks in the US. Cooter on his verandah in a rocking chair with a shotgun. 

"No sh|t, I bagged me 4 today with this trusty gun, what coons, turkeys, elk? No drones." "Bang there goes another one." 

[05omegav6]

Damn Yankees get everywhere