ABSTRACT
The field of human-robot interaction studies, issues of accurate user expectations of robot functionality, behavior, and responses are growing increasingly more complex and raising questions of ethics and morality in relation to human-robot relationships. Growing discoveries in robotics, human emotional reactions to new technologies, and new situations and contexts for robot use create new human-robot relationships that lead to larger discussions relating to the expectations, obligations, and responsibilities humans have toward machines and their uses. The International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) is an international committee serving as a non-governmental organization (NGO) 'concerned about the pressing dangers that military robots pose to peace and international security and to civilians in war'. Lethal Autonomous Robots (LARS) differ from drones and similar weapons operated at a distance because without human interaction, they are capable of determining when to strike a target. In a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Heyns stated, War without reflection is mechanical slaughter.
