Special issue of IEEE Technology and Society on Lethal Robots

The new IEEE Technology and Society magazine (Vol 28, number 1, Spring 2009) is a feature issue on "Lethal Robots." It includes articles by John Canning ("You've just been disarmed. Have a nice day!"), Noel Sharkey (Death strikes from the sky: the calculus of proportionality), Peter Asaro (Modeling the Moral User), Robert Sparrow (Predators or plowshares? arms control of robotic weapons), and Ronald Arkin (Ethical Robots in Warfare).