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Statement on Security in Open informal consultations at UN GA

Posted on 13 May 2025 by Laura Nolan

Statement on Security in “Open informal consultations on lethal autonomous weapons systems held in accordance with General Assembly resolution 79/62, 12-13 May 2025”. Thank you Chair, Presenters, Delegates, My name is Dr. Matthew Breay Bolton, I am Co-Director of Pace University’s International Disarmament Institute and a member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control […] Continue Reading

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Frequently Asked Questions on LAWS

Posted on 11 November 2017 by Frank Sauer

Memorandum for delegates at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) Meeting on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) Geneva, 13-17 November 2017 ICRAC is an international not-for-profit association of scientists, technologists, lawyers and policy experts committed to the peaceful use of robotics and the regulation of robot weapons. Please visit our […] Continue Reading

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Speed kills! Why we need to hit the brakes on “killer robots”

Posted on 08 April 2016 by Frank Sauer

by Juergen Altmann and Frank Sauer This analysis originally appeared as a guest post on duckofminerva.com Autonomous weapon systems: rarely has an issue gained the attention of the international arms control community as quickly as these so-called killer robots. “Once activated, they can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human operator“, according […] Continue Reading

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ICRAC Video: Peaceful Uses of Robotics and Banning LAWS

Posted on 12 November 2015 by Peter Asaro

Stop the Killer Robots from Kamille Rodriguez on Vimeo. The video explains that a ban on killer robots would not have negative impacts on the development of other robotics applications and research. It was created for ICRAC by digital animation artist Kamille Rodriguez: http://www.kamillerodriguez.com/   Continue Reading

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