An Overview of Fictional Military Robots

Introduction The following is a (non-definitive) list of fictional works with military robots. Refer to Lethal Autonomous Weapon (LAW). Film Near Future High Futurist Television Literature Computer/Video Games This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_military_robots >; it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). You may redistribute… Read More

What is a Lethal Autonomous Weapon?

Introduction Lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs) are a type of autonomous military system that can independently search for and engage targets based on programmed constraints and descriptions. Refer to Overview of Fictional Military Robots and Artificial Intelligence Arms Race. LAWs are also known as lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), autonomous weapon systems (AWS), robotic weapons or… Read More

Yes or No: Attempts to Regulate Autonomous Weapons are Failing?

In the 16 July 2022 issue of the New Scientist, it was reported that attempts to regulate autonomous weapons would likely fail. Between March and July 2022, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) – Group of Governmental Experts on emerging technologies in the area of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (GGE on LAWS) held various… Read More