In future wars, robots may drop from the sky by the hundreds from unmanned aircraft, swarming like giant insects over battlefields in coordinated, terrifying assaults. But that is a decades-away ...

Aerial drones have changed the war in Ukraine. Now, both Russia’s and Ukraine’s militaries are deploying more unmanned ground robots—and the two are colliding.

The use of robots in combat has always raised the ‘ethics’ question. This post tries to answer it by taking a detailed look at the pros and cons of using robots in wars.