Author’s Note: Why a Book on Robots and War?
Part I: The Change We Are Creating
1. Introduction: Scenes from a Robot War
2. Smart Bombs, Norma Jeane, and Defecating Ducks: A Short History of Robotics
3. Robotics for Dummies
4. To Infinity and Beyond: The Power and Future of Exponential Trends
5. Coming Soon to a Battlefield near You: The Next Wave of Warbots
6. Always in the Loop? The Arming and Autonomy of Robots
7. Robotic Gods: Our Machine Creators
8. What Inspires Them: Science Fiction’s Impact On Science Reality
9. The Refuseniks: Roboticists Who Just Say No
Part II: What Change Is Creating For Us
10. The Big Cebrowski and the Real RMA: Thinking About Revolutionary Technologies
11. “Advanced” Warfare: How We Might Fight With Robots
12. Robots That Don’t Like Apple Pi: How the U.S. Could Lose the Unmanned Revolution
13. Open Source Warfare: College Kids, Terrorists, and Other New Users of Robots at War
14. Losers and Luddites: The Changing Battlefields Robots Will Fight On and the New Electronic Sparks of War
15. The Psychology of War-Bots
16. YouTube War: The Public and Unmanned Wars
17. Changing the Experience of War And The Warrior
18. Command and Control…Alt-Delete: New Technologies And Their Effect On Leadership
19. Who Let You in the War? Technology and the New Demographics of Conflict
20. Un-Manning the Laws of War and Other Issues of (Un)Human Rights
21. A Robot Revolt? Talking About Robot Ethics
22. Conclusions: The Duality of Robots and Humans