I wouldn't call these weapons cowardly. If you presume, for example, the application of one of these 'bots to be used in an environment where there have been sniper attacks, then I would rather see an expensive piece of hardware trundled out to be shot to pieces, rather than a serviceman- whether the soldier be American, British, Canadian, or Turkish. Indeed, part of the article mentions that the impetus behind retrofitting these 'bots was the pleas of active servicemen who were seeing their fellow soldiers sniped, bombed, and ambushed. I don't think any of them, who have to live or die in a hostile environment on a daily basis, would reckon this solution cowardly...