Robot Armies

Seriously I figured I’d only see these on the Sci Fi channel but today I read that Russia (leave it to Putin) has armed robot sentries guarding five ballistic missile installations. These armed robots can detect and destroy targets without any human involvement (unless the human is the target) and have helped Russia take the lead in the new robotic arms race. These gun toting Russian robot sentries have cameras, laser range finders, and radar sensors. For fire power they are armed with 12.7 millimeter heavy machine guns and other smaller optional weapons. They can move up to 45 mph, operate 10 uninterrupted hours, and switch themselves into a sleep mode for up to a week. In the US even drones are operated by humans. We also have some sentry robots patrolling nuclear sites and robots used for bomb disposal but none that are armed, able to ID targets, and attack targets on their own. Russia even has a promotional video showing their commandos training with their armed robots. Russia’s defense minister and Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister seem to think these armed war robots will save lives.... I doubt it.