For some military tasks, armed robots can already take care of themselves.
The Pentagon has approached the subject of armed robots with considerable wariness.
Baber, for his part, seems baffled by the military's worries about deploying armed robots.
Do not release resources from these repositories and warehouses (files follow) for at least six months; used armed robots if necessary.
Meanwhile, the demand for armed bomb-disposal robots is growing daily among soldiers in Iraq.
Ranked along the walls in the dark were a dozen heavily armed robots, all motionless.
In multiplayer mode, up to four players may fight one another as armed robots.
In the following days, Alos was able to assemble a troop of seven heavily armed robots and program them for his own purposes.
There are also concerns about technology which might allow some armed robots to be controlled mainly by other robots.
But after all, weren't the 2 heavily armed robots protection enough?