With the lightning-fast deployment of artificial intelligence and the immense technological leaps in robotics, images of weapon-wielding humanoid robots are no longer merely a figment of the public imagination.
But as the visionary technology races ahead, so does the lingering unease.
The US-based company Foundation Future Industries, which builds humanoids for commercial and military use, has already tested its Phantom robots in Ukraine.
The company CEO says he expects to begin testing weaponisation use cases for its robots "as early as next year," following the Ukrainian pilot programs.
“I think we have this psychological reaction, which is like the Terminator, but the reality is if you really think about it from a practical sense, it's not really like that,” Foundation CEO Sankaet Pathak told Euronews Next.
