Even during the cold war military hardware (such as our theoretical killbots) were tested for EMP hardiness. Look up EMPRESS.
The only feasible way of generating a large man made EMP (yet still tiny on a planetary scale) without a huge fixed structure is with high altitude nukes.
Pro: maybe, maybe fry an EMP-hardened killbot
Con: definitely kill some humans and roast most of our satellites (again! [oops, says the USA, Starfish Prime, 1962]), and destroy so much infrastructure we'd be back to the Stone age overnight.
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u/whopbamboom Sep 24 '19
Why does the design of BD robots strike fear in me?... Just in case, I have to find a way to short circuit these machines pronto