Indian Springs, Nevada: every evening a group of ordinary men and women say goodbye to their families, and go to war. They fight insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They bomb, and they kill. Sometimes their vehicles crash but the pilots always go home to their families in the morning. They are remote control warriors. The current campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan comprises the world's first Robotic War. From almost none when it invaded Iraq, the U. S. fleet has grown to 7,000 robots in the air and 12,000 on the ground. Forty three other countries are now using robots in combat. But robots only have the ethics that they are programmed with, and human/robot wars raise many ethical questions. Does the ability to kill anyone, anywhere with a robot amount to lawlessness? What about when robots decide who to kill? Will having no casualties make going to war too easy? Very soon all sides will have access to remote control weapons. Will robots be the suicide bombers of the future? Robotic war is here. From today's CIA drone strikes to the next generation of armed autonomous robot swarms, killer robots are about the change our world.

Originally broadcast as a television special. Title from container. Not rated.