In an Apparent First, Dallas Police Used a Robot to Deliver Bomb That Killed Shooting Suspect

Peter Singer was quoted in the Washington Post about the first robot used to kill a human being:

Peter Singer, a New America senior fellow who specializes in the future of security, also believes this to be the first time such a bot has been used to deliver an offensive explosive in a domestic policing action. However, similar tactics have been used in war zones, he said.

In his book "Wired for War," Singer noted incidents when U.S. troops in Iraq jury-rigged primitive remote-controlled robots to deliver antipersonnel mines into alleys where they believed insurgents were hiding.

Those situations were ad hoc uses, Singer told The Post, not an established policy per se. But he noted reliance on robotics is on the rise in the military and by local law enforcement.

"The military has over 12,000 robotic systems today — and police all over the place use robots for bomb disposal and surveillance," he said.