Future Industries Fund, an American robotics startup backed by investor and chief strategic adviser Eric Trump, was in talks to supply the IOF with up to 1,000 Phantom MK-1-like robots for deployment in Gaza, the Financial Times reported on November 11.
￭ Military analyst Stacey Petty-John told the Financial Times that the debate over whether lethal humanoid robots should be allowed remains "completely unresolved". In a separate statement on November 12, Amnesty International and Stop the Killer Robots called for binding restrictions on autonomous weapons.
￭ In an interview with the "Financial Times", LeBlanc dismissed concerns about developing war machines, arguing that there was "no question of the morality" of building a robot similar to the fictional Terminator.