Laser shots and shock waves: the future of weapons is approaching killer robots. The industry of death is becoming more sophisticated and incorporating hypersonic missiles, unmanned ships or kinetic cannons.

“States are literally still trapped in a diplomatic process in the midst of arms competition. They make things dizzy by delaying decision-making,” says Reyes Jiménez, professor at the Pablo de Olavide University and member of the United Nations group on lethal autonomous weapons systems ( LAWS)