Unmanned 2022
Unmanned is a series of 3D printed action figures that interrogates the militarized fantasies embedded within popular Western imagination. Specifically the ongoing automation of lethal force—an emergent class of weapons and weapons systems (L.A.W.S.) developed by military powers and private companies intent on removing human decision making from the equation of lethal force. Such weapons are oftentimes imagined as fictional, anthropomorphic killer robots. The us of L.A.W.S. is not a faraway dystopia, but a present day crisis. AI is increasingly used in warfare with the promise of increasing efficiency in how war is waged and making wars more humane. Within a cultural imaginary where pervasive fantasies of killer robots override the believability of present day warfare, does embedding reality into such fictions make them more real
Kratos - BQM-167A Air Force Subscale Aerial Target (AFSAT)
United States of America


Israel Aerospace - IAI Harop / IAI Harpy 2 Loitering Munitions System
Israel


Samsung Techwin and Korea University - SGR-A1 Automated Turret
South Korea

China Academy of Electronics and Information -
CH-901 Drone Swarm Launcher Truck
China

Rubin Design Bureau - The Poseidon Nuclear Torpedo
Russia
Vigor Industrial / DARPA - Sea Hunter
Medium Displacement Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MDUSV)
United States of America

FLIR - Unmanned Systems
R800 Skyraider and SUGV
United States of America
Howe and Howe, Inc - Ripsaw M5 Electric Drive Super Tank
United States of America

