> It includes exemptions for the US Department of Defense, military contractors, and companies with special waivers for testing anti-weaponisation technologies. The Act also allows bomb squads to continue using advanced robots for public safety purposes, such as disabling suspected explosives.

So basically, it can still be used to harm people, but built by companies that have connections to DoD? This does nothing to prevent the misuse of robots, drones and AI to bring something worse than a nuclear disaster. This only serves to strengthen their foothold in the market of weaponised robots and drones.

Isn't using guns and bombs on robots is already illegal? Why do we need another act for this.