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The Bionic-Hand Arms Race

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soldiers and 300 British soldiers lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then, I have donned a variety of prosthetic hands, each of them striving toward perfect fidelity of the human hand—sometimes at a cost of aesthetics, sometimes a cost of functionality, but always designed to mimic and replace what was missing.

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Will Human Soldiers Ever Trust Their Robot Comrades?

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A Navy unit used a remote-controlled vehicle with a mounted video camera in 2009 to investigate suspicious areas in southern Afghanistan. The timing probably wasn’t accidental; it came at a time when global news outlets were focusing attention on a public backlash against lethal autonomous weapon systems. Mullen III/U.S.

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