Author's note : Why a book on robots and war?
pt. 1. The change we are creating.
Introduction : Scenes from a robot war
Smart bombs, Norma Jeane, and defecating ducks : a short history of robotics
Robotics for dummies
To infinity and beyond : the power of exponential trends
Coming soon to a battlefield near you : the next wave of warbots
Always in the loop? : the arming and autonomy of robots
Robotic gods : our machine creators
What inspires them : science fiction's impact on science reality
The refuseniks : the roboticists who just say no
pt. 2. What change is creating for us.
The big Cebrowski and the real RMA : thinking about revolutionary technologies
"Advanced" warfare : how we might fight with robots
Robots that don't like apple pi : how the U.S. could lose the unmanned revolution
Open-source warfare : college kids, terrorists, and other new users of robots at war
Losers and Luddites : the changing battlefields robots will fight on and the new electronic sparks of war
The psychology of warbots
YouTube war : the public and its unmanned wars
Changing the experience of war and the warrior
Command and control ... alt-delete : new technologies and their effect on leadership
Who let you in the war? : technology and the new demographics of conflict
Digitizing the laws of war and other issues of (un)human rights
A robot revolt? : talking about robot ethics
Conclusion : The duality of robots and humans.