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It is not an autonomous weapons system. It is a platform that can maneuver autonomously.
Targeting for the weapon itself is done by a human remotely at least right?
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...right?
*eta: yeah, it looks like it has a remote driver who can take over the steering and control the gun with a little PS4 controller thingy
How long until there is a version that would let the operator upload a photo of the target and the gun bot would seek and shoot that target automatically, with 99.9% face detection accuracy?
Turkey says they have flying drones who already have done that, so ...
One more step towards the inevitable weapons-free platform that will eventually come.