[Skywalk]

Actually, instead of relying on robot soldiers' individual program routines, what you could do is have an army of video game players. With this country's wealth of first-person shooters, tactical combat players,etc. each robot vehicle or soldier could be controlled via remote. With that comes the risk that an enemy will learn to disrupt the signals, but perhaps the remote base could be on the battlefield but protected by massive air and armored force.

The robots could be for the more dangerous assignments or advances.

One thing to think about, if humans begin to fight with surrogate forces, civilian casualties will skyrocket, as the means to destroy an enemy's army will lie solely with annihilating his manufacturing and electronics base. Losing a million robots might be tough, but if the capacity is there to make more, a nation could wage war where they might have negotiated for peace because of heavy casualties.

[Reeses]

each robot vehicle or soldier could be controlled via remote.

I think initially robots will be remote control, a stepping stone until computers are smart enough to act mostly on their own. We may even see this for home use robots, for example a maid robot controlled remotely by someone sitting in China making 10 cents per hour. Just about any manual labor job in this country could be done that way. Future "immigrants" won't leave their home country, won't be getting US socialist benefits, and won't be voting for Democrats. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.