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This week, six robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics (the maker of Spot, the robot ‘dog’) published an open letter to the robotics industry, recognising that ‘adding weapons to robots raises 'new risks of harm and serious ethical issues.’

The world waits as the CCW proves itself a failed forum. States need to find a way forward or remain complicit in the Russian led deadlock. The final meeting of 2022 of the Group of Governmental…

Photo credit: Necro Mancer (Twitter) Stop Killer Robots is deeply concerned with reports of weapons systems being used that may have options for autonomous targeting. The reported use of the KUB-BLA (also known as…

The meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) reconvened at the United Nations from 7-11th March. Now in their 9th year of discussions, states supposedly gathered to formally consider “detailed proposals for…

Yesterday evening, 8 December 2021, the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the UN concluded its work for 2021 – finalising its report to be submitted to the 6th Review Conference of the…

In a powerful demonstration of political and moral leadership, the government of New Zealand has committed to pursuing new international law to prohibit and regulate autonomy in weapons systems to ensure meaningful human control over force.  …

On 15-16 September 2021, the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted an online conference on Safeguarding Human Control over Autonomous Weapons. Taking place over two afternoon sessions, it kicked off with a High Level Panel that provided a striking illustration…

A total of 55 countries were represented with intense and focussed discussions on key elements of a potential new framework. Our Campaign was present throughout – in person and virtually, and fuelled progress towards a consensus on the policy ingredients…