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Letter: How to stop the armed robots in their tracks

Published 9 November 2022

From Geoff Harding, Sydney, Australia

Amid concern over the arming of robots, I suggest that, while laser weapons shouldn’t be used to deliberately blind or disable human adversaries in war, it would seem reasonable to use such weapons on robots. For a more low-cost method, a paintball pellet fired at visual sensors could do the job(15 October, p 11).

Issue no. 3412 published 12 November 2022

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