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Robotics has long been funded by the military, but it seems to me that the pace is increasing, and the pretense of non-violence is dropping away: increasingly, there are now guns alongside the sensors. Arguably, any robotic technology has military as well as peaceful application, but I think a deeper discussion is long overdue.
I've started creating posters to remind researchers that whether we like it or not, we work in a military institution, and our results will soon be killing people.
All are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license: feel free to distribute, print, share, modify, and improve these, but please credit me, distribute in kind, and don't sell them.
Carnegie Mellon NREC recently announced a very large contract for production design of an armed tele-operated robotic vehicle:
Some of my posters were inspired by U.S. Government propaganda posters from World War I, II, and the Cold War. Some sources of these:
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Garth Zeglin, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.