Smart Weapons
Or Maybe We Shouldn't Ban Killer Robots
We should probably be arguing about war itself and not hypothetical future war technologies.
Here's the Canadian Military's Futuristic Prototype Smart Rifle
The prototypes provide a glimpse of of what the high-tech military weapons of the future might look like.
The US Army Is Now Field-Testing Smart Rifles
Is the American infantry's dream of data-driven one-man armies finally coming into focus?
The World's First Precision-Guided Rifle Has Gone Semi-Automatic
It's a giant leap forward in the complicated, rapidly-evolving future of smart weapons.
How Data-Driven Soldiers Might Upend the Future of War
TrackingPoint, the Texas-based smart-weapons startup, just released its conceptual vision for the so-called networked battlefield. Unsurprisingly, it looks completely insane.
Long Shot: Inside the Scope of Smart Weapons
Watch Motherboard's new documentary on smart weapons, the gamification of warfare, and a laser-guided robo-rifle that aims itself.
Long Shot: Inside the Scope of Smart Weapons
Watch our new documentary on smart weapons, the gamification of warfare, and a laser-guided robo-rifle that aims itself.
Trailer: Long Shot
A teaser for Motherboard's trip to the frontline of smart weapons. Has killing become too easy?