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They don't get drunk and they don't run away...
The problem will start if humanoid killer robots are developed and they go rogue, or if they start developing some form of self-awareness and mutiny, refusing to go to the frontline and die...
If we move away from science-fiction, although it is happening as we speak, the article is interesting in that it shows what war is becoming in an advanced theatre such as Eastern Ukraine. The conventional armies of France or Britain can learn a lot from the Urkainians' experience and need to re-think their priorities.
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"Robot wars are already happening," says Oleksandr Afanasiev from the Ukrainian army's K2 brigade. He commands its UGV battalion - the world's first, he says.
One way in which the brigade has been using these robots is by mounting Kalashnikov machine guns on top.
"They open fire on a battlefield where an infantryman would be afraid to turn up. But a UGV is happy to risk its existence," Maj Afanasiev says.
[...] "Sooner or later, we'll end up in a situation where our strike UGV will come up against their strike UGV on the battlefield. Robot wars may sound like science fiction, but there's nothing sci-fi about the battlefield. It's our reality," he says.
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