It has been projected that roughly one third of military weapons could be robotic by 2015 . Over 4,000 armed robots have been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan ; South Korea and Israel have both deployed armed robot border guards; other nations, including China, Russia, India, Singapore and the UK are increasingly developing these technologies. While systems like the Predator drone and the armed SWORDS recon units deployed in Iraq are not fully autonomous, as they are remotely-operated, it seems clear that the direction of military research is to gradually remove human operators from the loop entirely. For example, a recent article by Ronald Arkin quotes a division commander from the Israeli Defense Forces, who have deployed stationary robotic gun-sensor platforms along the Gaza border, as saying:  

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