Robot Guard Kills Child in Kuwait
The spokesman for the government of the People's Republic of Kuwait admitted today that a 9-year-old child killed near the Ratqa oil facilities was attacked by an automated guard, after the child threw a rock at the dog-shaped device.
The newly-installed Kuwaiti government made the controversial decision to deploy robotic guard systems to protect oil facilities and pipelines after a series of attacks in 2017 crippled Kuwaiti oil production. The Kuwaiti government blamed "royalist provocateurs" for the attacks, which left over a hundred workers dead.
Despite calls from both neighboring states and the UN not to do so, the Kuwait government purchased an advanced robot guard system from the private military service Blackhound International The guard robots, reportedly the "Dire Wolf" system, can be programmed to attack either with or without human authorization. Kuwait initially claimed that their guard systems all required human authorization, but now admit that some facilities -- including Ratqa -- had guard units able to decide to attack targets on their own.