ABSTRACT
Killer robots seem to be everywhere. They have made it to the headlines of major newspapers and Hollywood has been busy turning out killer robot movies for years. The roboticist Daniel Wilson writes in his humoristic handbook How to Survive a Robot Uprising: ‘If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace. In print and on the big screen we have been deluged with scenarios of robot malfunction, misuse, and outright rebellion’ (Wilson 2005, 10). He asks rhetorically – ‘How could so many Hollywood scripts be wrong?’ – just to carry on with his science-and sciencefiction-inspired analysis of how to defeat our future robotic enemies.
