Killer robots are here and we must stop them, expert says

Do Killer Robots Already Exist?

Killer Robots: Keeping Control of Autonomous Weapons

"It's no longer a flight of fantasy, it's something that people should start taking seriously. But at the same time, it's not too late. Had we waited until we started seeing these enter battlefields worldwide, we think that it would be much harder to get this sort of dialogue going and realistically have a chance of stopping this technology from proliferating,"

" I’m an engineer who builds robots; I don’t know why people would be interested in my views on the ethical question " [..] soon the company started to work with Sony on its Aibo robot dog, developing a control system that allowed it to run. After that, it continued in the same vein, with a tool for Sony’s Qrio humanoid robot, allowing choreographers to design dance routines.