The Washington Post today is heralding what it calls the “new military-robotics complex,” an era in which the US military is increasingly replacing trigger-pullers with kill bots and “cyber-hackers safely ensconced behind their computers, thousands of miles from the battlefront.”

Click here to read more about this brave new world of grenade-size, throwable battle droids.

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