The reverse on allowing the robots came after fierce debate and condemnation from civil liberties groups.
Killer robots will not be rolled out in San Francisco after all - with police performing a U-turn just days after the controversial policy was announced.
But on Tuesday, city supervisors voted to put the brakes on the controversial policy, although the issue will now be sent back to a committee for further discussion and could resurface again., but the move thrust the famously liberal city into the centre of a debate about the future of technology and policing, with some saying arming robots was a step too close to a dystopian science fiction movie.
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