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<sarcasm> Surely any robot built by the U.S. government will be bound by Asimov's three laws of robotics. </sarcasm>

From the RTI website, a presentation they supposedly gave to the Army War College Strategic Studies Institute in April:

A code of moral behavior for intelligent robots will be developed. Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws are insufficient (especially for military).

I understand that. My sarcasm was apparently a failed attempt at being somewhat humorous after a long week.

Both of our posts would be funnier if the project was anything other than vaporware.

David Langford's Three Laws:

1. A robot will not harm authorized Government personnel but will terminate intruders with extreme prejudice.

2. A robot will obey the orders of authorized personnel except where such orders conflict with the Third Law.

3. A robot will guard its own existence with lethal antipersonnel weaponry, because a robot is bloody expensive.

(Langford is an SF writer. You might know him from his "basilisk" stories--if not, go read them sometime.)