robots on the battlefield

robots on the battlefield

The Pentagon is going to be spending big bucks - 120 billion US dollars - to build heavily-armed robots for the battlefield:

Much of the cash will be spent computerising the military, but the ultimate aim is to take members of the armed forces out of harm's way. They would be replaced by robots capable of hunting and killing America's enemies.

Gordon Johnson, of the US joint forces research centre, told the New York Times: "The American military will have these kinds of robots. It's not a question of 'if', it's a question of 'when'."

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