Robotic Nation Evidence

This article describes the Army's current plans for robots on the battlefield:

The Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program is intended to create a force that is as powerful as today's but substantially more nimble. The Army's goal is for both remote control and autonomous unmanned vehicles to be a major part of ground combat by 2010. "Military robots are being developed and fielded to do three things: perform the dull, the dirty and the dangerous," says military robotics pioneer Scott D. Myers, president of General Dynamics Robotic Systems in Westminster, Maryland.

For a soldier on the battlefield, everything is dangerous. There are bullets, bombs and shrapnel whizzing through the air. Most everything happening on the battlefield is also dirty. Therefore, as mentioned in previous posts, Meyer's statement is a way of saying that in the near future there will be no humans on the battlefield. See this post and this one for further details.

The article continues:

Three types of lethal robots are being developed for FCS. United Defense Industries is creating its Armed Robotic Vehicle (ARV), a 5-ton prowler armed with missiles and a medium-caliber gun turret. It will also provide targeting information for other weapons and seed battlefields with miniature sensors.

Lockheed Martin's candidate is the MULE, or Multifunction Utility/Logistics and Equipment vehicle. Smaller than the ARV, the MULE will follow troops over rough terrain and urban rubble, carrying gear and ammo for infantry squads, carting back wounded soldiers, looking for landmines, or firing antitank weapons or machine guns.

Both of these vehicles are already in the prototype stage and being tested in DARPA's unmanned ground combat vehicle demonstration program. A third likely system is the Soldier Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV), developed by iRobot, the same company that makes the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner.

The SUGV will be a remotely operated reconnaissance and tactical robot. Able to climb stairs, the sensor-equipped, pint-size robot will allow soldiers to see around corners during urban street fighting. It might also be armed with a grenade launcher and equipped with directional microphones and motion detectors for overnight sentry duty, allowing ground-pounders to get some sleep.

Note that all three of these robots are armed with things like machine guns, antitank weapons and grenade launchers. Intelligent robots will be actively seeking, targeting and killing human beings as early as 2010.

See also this, this and this.