These airborne robots can be used for carrying supplies or performing reconnaissance without endangering human pilots.
What are UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles)?
100
This is the United States agency responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military.
What is DARPA? (Do you know what it stands for?)
100
This type of law deals with what we often think of as moral wrongdoing, stealing, murder etc. and seeks justice by punishing the wrongdoer.
What is criminal law?
100
The liability for an accident being divided unevenly between the parties responsible.
What is What is differential apportionment?
100
An approach that sees ethics, not in terms of what rules should be followed, but in terms of what kind of character an agent has—does one have a virtuous character, or is one full of vice?
What is virtue ethics?
200
Coined in the mid-20th century, this term refers to a competition between nations for technological superiority in space.
What is the space race?
200
This existing ground vehicle is equipped with cameras and communication equipment and is designed to find and detonate IEDs.
What is the PackBot?
200
This type of program testing, which occurs prior to official product launches, helps to lower risks and errors before launch.
What is beta testing?
200
Not taking the necessary steps to predict risks that are foreseeable, or can be avoided.
What is failure to take proper care?
200
This movement within ethics asserts that no general laws or rules are possible, and each ethical situation is unique.
What is particularism?
300
The Navy's Phalanx Close-In Weapon System and the C-RAM are automated weapons that use radar technology to sense, identify, and track these threats.
What are missiles?
300
This challenge, in 2007, required autonomous vehicles to move in a simulated urban environment, in the presence of other vehicles and signal lights, while obeying traffic laws.
What is the Urban Challenge?
300
In April 2008, TALON SWORDS, allied mobile robots in Iraq armed with machine guns, had to be taken down because they did this.
What is aiming guns at friendly soldiers (friendly fire)?
300
This idea deals with wrongdoing in product liability and addresses the problem of legal punishment aimed at non human agents.
What is corporate punishment?
300
The term the article uses to describe a fear that is similar to that with nuclear weapons: that a rogue officer may be enough to take control of these terrible weapons and unleash them without approval.
What are unauthorized overrides?
400
This semi-autonomous hunter-killer aircraft, built by General Atomics, has been used extensively in Afghanistan.
What is the Predator?
400
This class of robotic vehicles must be equipped with additional sensory abilities and interpretation technology to detect the presence of civilians and other infrastructures due to the environment it would be used.
What are unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs)?
400
This is the classic defense against failures to warn and failures to take proper care in the event of harm due to a malfunction.
What is "industry standard defense?"
400
Contractual, quasi-contractual, and non-contractual relationships that involve one person acting legally on behalf of another.
What is the law of agency?
400
The main issue with this ethical theory concerning autonomous military robots is that the theory is incompatible with a “slave morality.”
What is the deontological (ethical) theory?
500
Until 2009, the Air Force was developing the Transformational Satellite Communication System, an information grid that would quickly carry signals across the globe, but the project was cancelled by this Secretary of Defense.
Who is Robert Gates?
500
This country has already employed the use of sophisticated armed sentry robots. Its robots can interrogate suspects, identify potential enemy intruders, and fire its weapons autonomously.
What is South Korea?
500
This phrase describes how very complex robots develop actions which can surprise their original creators.
What are emergent behaviors?
500
Several Complications can occur while using the DaVinci Surgical System. These Include damages to surrounding organs such as burns, tears, or internal bleeding (youhavealawyer.com). When determining to which extent the manufacturer (Intuitive Surgical) or the doctor (or both parties) should be held responsible this tool/idea is useful to consider.
What is differential appropriation.
500
Asimov’s story from iRobot that exemplifies a robot that continually disobeys Kant’s categorical imperative to remain in compliance with the First Law of Robotics.