I despise the tone, wording, and implication of the story and clickbait headline. Verge is tech enough to know it's wrong. They acknowledge "remotely piloted"

I despise the tone, wording, and implication of the story and clickbait headline. Verge is tech enough to know it's wrong. They acknowledge "remotely piloted" in the first sentence. But then, back to drama in the second with "granting robots". Granting implies autonomy and choice where there is neither; granting the officer pilot would be more truthful. The term bot or robot should be reserved for independently thinking entities. The machine here is just a remote manipulator.