Sentences with phrase «use of armed autonomous»

Oct: ICRAC convenes its first workshop in Berlin where its members call for an international treaty to prohibit development, acquisition, deployment, and use of armed autonomous robot weapons.

Sep: Noel Sharkey, Jürgen Altmann, Peter Asaro, and Rob Sparrow agree to establish the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), calling, inter alia, for «prohibition of the development, deployment and use of armed autonomous unmanned systems»

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The researchers used an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) named SeaBED that is armed with upward - looking sonar to map the underside of the sea ice floes.

The letter states that autonomous weapons have been describes as «the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms» and argues it would only be a matter of time before they fall into the hands of terrorists, dictators and warlords who may use them for ethnic cleansing and to control their populace.

Armed drones and other autonomous weapons systems with decreasing levels of human control are currently in use and development by high - tech militaries including the US, China, Israel, South Korea, Russia, and the UK.

Recent developments such as use of armed unmanned air vehicles and autonomous weaponry further compound this problem.

May: Dutch NGO IKV Pax Christi issues a report outlining its ethical and legal concerns with the use of armed drones and autonomous weapons.

Amnesty International Ireland's executive director Colm O'Gorman cautioned that the use of fully autonomous weapons «would result in unlawful killings and injuries both in situations of armed conflict, where both international humanitarian law and international human rights law apply, and in law enforcement operations, where international human rights law applies.»

Confirm the need to eradicate other weapons that especially affect the civilian population, such as antipersonnel mines and cluster munitions, to pre-emptively ban fully autonomous weapons; and to control the possession and use of small arms;

The year opened with a resolution by the European Parliament on 27 February on the use of armed drones that included a call to «ban the development, production and use of fully autonomous weapons which enable strikes to be carried out without human intervention.»

The 2014 experts meeting concentrated on the role played by autonomous weapons systems in situations of armed conflict in part because their possible use in law enforcement and other situations is seen as a matter better suited to the Human Rights Council.

The United Nations disarmament chief Angela Kane provided a statement delivered by Jarmo Sareva that noted, «[t] he emergence of autonomous weapons calls into question the adequacy of measures to implement the rules of armed conflict that apply to the use of all weapon systems.