A £7.7m (7.7) drone project called Roborder will be trialled by the EU to help control its borders. A series of unmanned vehicles will be used on land, sea and air to detect smugglers and people traffickers. The drones will gather information that will be sent back to a control room, enabling authorities to make arrests. Noel Sharkey from the University of Sheffield cautioned that such technology will become capable of stopping people and could be used by authoritarian regimes in the future.
A £7.7m ($9.9m) drone project called Roborder will be trialled by the EU to help control its borders. A series of unmanned vehicles will be used on land, sea and air to detect smugglers and people traffickers. The drones will gather information that will be sent back to a control room, enabling authorities to make arrests. Noel Sharkey from the University of Sheffield cautioned that such technology will become capable of stopping people and could be used by authoritarian regimes in the future.