‘No bad actors’: firms vow not to weaponize robots to avoid harm

They fear misuse of their products and an erosion of public trust in robots

Several robot production companies have pledged not to support the weaponization of their general purpose robots and have encouraged other companies to follow suit.

In an open letter, six leading robotics firms promised not to add weapons to their general use technology and said they would oppose others doing so.

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