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• Military robots -- Moral and ethical aspects

• Robotic soldiers

• Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2012), by Bonnie Lynn Docherty (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Automata Old and New (London: Imp. at the Chiswick press, 1893), by Conrad William Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Where Am I? Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning (electronic version of "Navigating Mobile Robots"), by Johann Borenstein, H. R. Everett, and Liqiang Feng (PDF at Michigan)

• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• R. U. R., by Karel Čapek (multiple editions)

• The Electric Man: Being the One Act Version of the Successful Three Act Farcical Comedy of the Same Name (New York and London: Samuel French, c1910), by Charles Hannan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mechanical Jane: A Play In One Act for Three Ladies (New York and London: Samuel French, c1910), by M. E. Barber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Modus Operandi, or, The Automaton Chess-Player: A Play in Three Acts, With Prefatory Remarks, and Extracts From Original Letters on De Kempelin's Automaton Chess-Player, Published in 1784 (London: T. H. Lacy, 1866), by J. Walker, contrib. by Karl Gottlieb Windisch (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Planning Algorithms (free online edition, c2006), by Steven Michael LaValle (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at lavalle.pl)

• Old Soldiers (included on a Baen CD image; c2005), by David Weber
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 183 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 185 MB
• Slaves to the Metal Horde (as published under Milton Lesser pseudonym in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, 1954), by Stephen Marlowe, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg text)
• The Huge Hunter: or, The Steam Man of the Prairies, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)
• Virtual Danger, by Teel McClanahan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Defenders (as published in Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1953), by Philip K. Dick, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Bolo! (included on a CD image), by David Weber, contrib. by Keith Laumer
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 151 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 152 MB

• Simulant Portrait (1990), by Johanna Drucker (page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)
• The Memory of Mars (as published in Amazing Stories, December 1961), by Raymond F. Jones, illust. by Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Ware Tetralogy (consisting of Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware; Creative Commons edition, 2010), by Rudy v. B. Rucker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sugar the Robot and the Race to Save the Earth (c2013), by Ryan Cartwright (multiple formats with commentary at Crimper Books)
• Do Not Feed the Troll! (c2014), by Ryan Cartwright (multiple formats with commentary at Crimper Books)
• The Wonderful Electric Elephant (Akron, OH et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co., 1927), by Frances Trego Montgomery, illust. by C. M. Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Squeak: Learn Programming with Robots (c2005), by Stéphane Ducasse (PDF in France)

• Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023), ed. by Ibo van de Poel, Lily Frank, Julia Hermann, Jeroen Hopster, Dominic Lenzi, Sven Nyholm, and Elena Ziliotti (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player, of Mr. de Kempelen: With an Easy Method of Imitating the Movements of that Celebrated Figure, Illustrated by Original Original Drawings; To Which is Added, A Copious Collection of the Knight's Moves Over the Chess Board (London: Printed for J. Booth, 1821), by Robert Willis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Letters of Charles Gottlieb de Windisch on the Automaton Chess-Player of Mr. de Kempelen: A Free Translation From the German (London: Printed by R. Brown, 1819), by Karl Gottlieb Windisch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the Automaton Chess Player, Now Exhibited in London, at 4, Spring Gardens (London: J. Hatchard, 1819), by Oxford graduate
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• Chess: A Selection of Fifty Games, From Those Played by the Automaton Chess-Player, During Its Exhibition in London, in 1820 (London: W. Pople, printer, 1820), ed. by W. Hunneman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen und Dessen Nachbildung (in German; Leipzig and Dresden: J. G. I. Breitkopf, 1789), by Joseph Friedrich Racknitz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2012), by Bonnie Lynn Docherty (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (partial serial archives)

• Where Am I? Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning (electronic version of "Navigating Mobile Robots"), by Johann Borenstein, H. R. Everett, and Liqiang Feng (PDF at Michigan)

• Ueber den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen und Dessen Nachbildung (in German; Leipzig and Dresden: J. G. I. Breitkopf, 1789), by Joseph Friedrich Racknitz (page images at HathiTrust)