Episode 10 - Will Military Swarms Be the Next Weapon of Mass Destruction?

Paola Gaeta and Marta Bo interview Dr. Giacomo Persi Paoli, Programme Lead for Security and Technology Programme at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). In this episode he talks about the next generation of lethal autonomous weapons systems – robot swarms – and their technical and operational features. Giacomo Persi Paoli is the author of Swarm Robotics: Technical and Operational Overview of the Next Generation of Autonomous Systems (with Merel Ekelhof) (UNIDIR 2020). For more information on the Lethal Autonomous Weapons and War Crimes research project, visit our website

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Episode 10 - Will Military Swarms Be the Next Weapon of Mass Destruction? is an episode from Lethal Autonomous Weapons: 10 things we want to know by Graduate Institute, Geneva.

This episode is 00:34:22 long.

This episode was published on Dec 8, 2021.

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