Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

Fully autonomous weapons: Toby Walsh at TEDx Berlin

AI researcher Toby Walsh gives a talk at TEDx Berlin on Killer Robots. Walsh will be participating in a side event and media briefing for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots at the annual meeting of th...

15 October 2015, by Robohub Editors

This military robotics company vows to never make a killer robot | Fast Company

Cars are already close to driving themselves down the highway. How far are we then from military weapons systems that decide on their own when and where to fire? "You want the scary answer?" asks C...

23 October 2014, by CIS Blog

Clearpath’s public stance on Killer Robots sets precedence in corporate responsibility

Last week the Waterloo-based Clearpath publicly pledged not to develop lethal autonomous weapons, otherwise known as "killer robots". In an open letter to the public, Clearpath's CTO Ryan Gariepy wr...

20 August 2014, by AJung Moon

Ron Arkin and Noel Sharkey debate lethal autonomous weapons at UN

The Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) is currently underway at the United Nations in Geneva to discuss questions relating to emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons syst...

14 May 2014, by Hallie Siegel

AJung Moon on “What were the top stories in robotics from 2013?”

2013 was a year filled with talk of drones. I’m not saying this just because I’m biased by the recent news reporting on how large companies (Amazon, DHL, and UPS to be exact) are exploring t...

11 December 2013, by AJung Moon