Garth Zeglin: Anti-Robot-War Posters

Robotics has long been funded by the military, but it seems to me that the pace is increasing, and the pretense of non-violence is dropping away: increasingly, there are now guns alongside the sensors. Arguably, any robotic technology has military as well as peaceful application, but I think a deeper discussion is long overdue.

I've started creating posters to remind researchers that whether we like it or not, we work in a military institution, and our results will soon be killing people.

FCS poster Good Work poster Freedom Robot poster
The War Effort Needs You poster Our Tech Wins poster Deadly Weapon poster
Our Humans poster Right on Target poster

All are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license: feel free to distribute, print, share, modify, and improve these, but please credit me, distribute in kind, and don't sell them.

Resources

Carnegie Mellon NREC recently announced a very large contract for production design of an armed tele-operated robotic vehicle:

Some of my posters were inspired by U.S. Government propaganda posters from World War I, II, and the Cold War. Some sources of these:


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Garth Zeglin, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.