New report calls for ban on 'killer robots' amid U.N. meeting

A full-scale figure of a Terminator "T-800" robot used in the movie "Terminator 2" is displayed at a preview of the Terminator Exhibition in Tokyo on March 18, 2009. UNITED NATIONS -- Technology allowing a pre-programmed robot to shoot to kill, or a tank to fire at a target with no human involvement, is only years away, experts say. A new report called Monday for a ban on such "killer robots." The report by Human Rights Watch and the Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic was released as the United Nations kicked off a week-long meeting on such weapons in Geneva. The report calls for humans to remain in control over all weapons systems at a time of rapid technological advances.