Robot swarm in the battlespace may not be as far off as many think. Sure, many obstacles remain but we’re advancing at an amazing pace. Imagine these weaponized – with just enough intelligence and payload to find and kill a human target within a mile or two. The effect on battlefield tactics will be profound but it may have an even greater impact on policy. Going to war is only going to get easier – as long as the robots are on your side.

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with IR sensors, face recognition and a payload of 5-10g plastic bomblets low-cost autonomous quadcopters will be capable of swarming over a battlefield to eradicate any/all ‘enemy’ threats.
in the 1980′s the British sci-fi comic 2000A.D. featured a strip called A.B.C. Warriors and an autonomous anti-personnel weapon called a ‘monkey-bomb’.
screeching down onto the battlefield seeking out enemy comabatants, the monkey-bomb would attach itself to the soldiers back, whereupon it would start ticking loudly. the bomb itself deciding when to detonate, even interacting with the doomed soldier to increase its potential killing zone and create maximum confusion.
:D Baz
or it may have been ‘Rogue Trooper’, it was a few years back… ;)