Robotics technology is improving, but its routine use in the home, hospital and care settings could be a long way off.

A United Nations report suggested that a drone, used against militia fighters in Libya’s civil war, may have selected a target autonomously.

Should lethal autonomous weapon systems be programmed to strike and kill without direct human oversight? If so, when and how? Should the algorithms used to make automated battlefield decisions be subject to review and inspection? If so, by whom?

The US Army is developing robots that can operate autonomously and ask questions to deal with ambiguities, which both increases efficiency between teams and robots, but are still too slow and not resilient enough for use.

Slaughterbots is a 2017 arms-control advocacy video presenting a dramatized near-future scenario where swarms of inexpensive microdrones use artificial intelligence and facial recognition to assassinate political opponents based on preprogrammed criteria.