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Military Robot Technology Documentary

Robotics are the future when it comes to military force.

Al Jazeera Fault Lines program on US military robots.
Shows iRobot robots for reconnaissance and IED diffusions, reconaissance drones, and authorization of drones to do targetted killings, but most of the program is about how robots change the decision-making process of whether to go to war, and what pace we should expect military robots to develop at in the future.  Originally broadcast on February 19, 2012.

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Drone Debrief: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in UAVs

Unmanned aerial vehicles are becoming divisive. Their battlefield roles range from the benign, like carrying supplies to U.S. troops on the ground, to the deadly, like the increasing drone attacks in Yemen and Pakistan. As UAVs are used more, embarrassing incidents also rise—ground controllers losing control of test drones or crashing them on missions. Here's a roundup of the good, bad, and ugly incidents.

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"People will have to decide is this morally what we want to have, a machine making that decision to kill a human."Noel Sharkey, chairman of ICRAC

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