[xkcd-sucks]

In the USA, if I understand it correctly, it seems there is a lot of case law establishing criminal or civil liability for autonomous mechanical devices that kill or injure someone - Typically traps like tripwired guns, so it would be interesting to see how it applies to autonomous robots having some degree of "perception" and "judgement"

[giraffe_lady]

Do those cases apply to the police though? Qualified immunity is basically a separate, non-overlapping set of case law for police liability that also coincidentally almost always rules that they have none.