"<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMqm6C10eDM&amp;t=6m17s"">6:17</a> "They put a gun on Spot!"  Robot dogs with sniper rifles are an example of L.A.W.S. - Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems.  Lawyers for the USA military argue against international ethics watchdogs that there is no point in making laws against L.A.W.S. because the weapons are not Autonomous (so they say)... yet.  However", you can bet that autonomous weapons are being tested. Anyone who works in software will tell you how easy it will be to remove the switch and allow them to run in fully Autonomous mode.