In late May, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Christof Heyns, issued his report to the Human Rights Council on lethal autonomous robots. He defined these as “weapon systems that,...
The development and use of unmanned vehicles has so far been concentrated on those that fly. However, the realisation that this technology can be applied to different environments, for use on land and water,...
On Thursday, President Obama made his much anticipated speech on the future of the US’ counter-terrorism strategy and directly addressed his government’s drones programme. Under his watch, this programme has increased exponentially and has...
The race towards greater use of unmanned air vehicles has taken an unexpected and innovative direction with drones being developed for food and beer delivery. What is being dubbed as the ‘OppiKoppi Beer Drone’...
