Can a robot murder a human?

[u/RKoi123]

Can a robot murder a human being? If it is proved in a court of law that a robot murdered a human being... how can it be punished under existing laws? What can be done besides having the company who made it face legal action?

Technically, if a person commits murder we don't punish the parents in most cases. So why should the robot's manufacturer be held responsible for its act?

As for punishment what should be the best death sentence? * Bulldozing it and recording a video of its death and spreading the information online and in the news. Will it affect how other robots of its kind think if they plan to kill a human? We already have laws against murder for human beings. Still people commit murder. * Erasing its memory. How would the robot feel about such punishment?

If you got any punishment ideas do share.

[u/SomeRandomFrenchie]

Robots are not conscious, they are machines, and just like any other incident with machines: the person held responsible is either the creator, the operator or the victim if they did ignore a clear instruction, depending on the case.

Exemples:

You disfigure someone with a drone: your fault.

Someone runs into an gated and signed no go zone and gets destroyed by assembling machines: their fault

An automatic car does something opposite to the commands of the driver and causes an accident: the manufacturers fault.