In recent years, Western military powers have experimented with both weaponizing existing
life forms and designing robotic weapons that mimic existing life forms. These efforts have
been accompanied by a discourse of what future warfare will be like. Weapons contractors
have released visions of this future on YouTube, television documentaries have popularized
scenarios of biowarfare, and films have pushed these narratives to the limits of science
fiction. As such, the discourse of “biomimetic warfare” is no longer contained in …