unmanned combat aerial vehicles better known as you can have you avi's or drones these machines are simmias on a miss meaning that they don't need a pilot in the seat but that there is some type of human controller in a room somewhere monitoring this robot and making its decisions for it now the second type is the one that the u.n. report is actually most wary about liesl a time it's robotics bars short these machines have the capability to conduct missions and make life and death decisions without the command of a human controller they can locate targets and then choose what to do with them all by themselves is a powerful and intimidating notion that the u.n. report says could actually lower the threshold for countries to go to war or to otherwise use lethal force now obviously there's a lot of criticism about drones you avi's and lars and numerous discussions taking place on an international level but before we move forward it's important to critically and analyze the significance of these machines so let's take a quick look at what these robots offer their human counterparts and why the