Beyond the already deployed human-controlled drone fleets, military engineers are already tinkering with lethal AI-driven autonomous battlefield bots.
Judging solely by science fiction, military robots seem like a bad idea. From The Terminator to The Matrix, pop culture is full of stories of powerful machines that run amok, turning on their makers and overcoming any human forces that try to stop them. Even RUR, the 1920s play by Karel Čapek that introduced the term “robot,” foretold the end of the human race at the hands of the artificial beings.