IR Blogpost 1b: Robot Soldiers in the Lime Light -popular science

War today is involving more and more technology, but so far, decisions are still all made by humans. However, BAE is working on making it possible for robots to make decisions as well. Commanders these days are "swimming in data" as the article puts it and the advantage of the robot is that it would collect and analyze the data more quickly and determine the best course of action. These robots haven't seen the battlefield yet, but have gone through disaster simulations and have proved their worth there. My question is why they havent done battlefield simulations for these robot soldiers. And whats after this? Is it going to come to the point where wars are no longer fought between people? I am honestly a bit wary about this sort of thing. I don't think the robots can still make the best decision. They lack intuition and that can be invaluable in some situations. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8495946.stm