What if artillery rounds, mini-drone swarms of explosives, rockets and even air-fired missiles are all approaching forward-positioned Army troops at the same time? Imagine that these incoming weapons ...

Military robots equipped with artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons raise a major question: can they respect human values? Inspired by Isaac Asimov's laws, an American program explores this ...

Autonomous weapon systems—commonly known as killer robots—may have killed human beings for the first time ever last year, according to a recent United Nations Security Council report on the Libyan ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A Pendleton man filed a petition with the Oregon Secretary of State this week to prevent combat robots from ever being used in the state. He calls it the Anti-Combat Robot Act.

How lethal autonomous weapon systems are defined could determine whether existing weapons will be regulated or prohibited, ...

Ukraine's soldiers have been fighting Russia with M2 Browning machine guns, an iconic American weapon. Now, ground robot makers are adding them to their AI-enabled fighting weapons. One maker told BI ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The U.S. military is intensifying its commitment to the development and use of autonomous weapons, as confirmed by an update to a ...

October 13, 2025: Over the past twenty years, small unmanned ground-based robots have undergone tremendous evolution. Initially, there was RoBattle, a seven-ton wheeled modular drone transport vehicle ...

Of all the inventions in the dystopian sci-fi series Black Mirror, perhaps none is more terrifying than the robotic guard dogs in Metalhead. In the episode, from the fourth series of the programme in ...

International attempts to regulate the use of autonomous weapons, sometimes called “killer robots”, are faltering and may be derailed if such weapons are used in Ukraine and seen to be effective. No ...

Boston Dynamics and five other robotics companies have signed an open letter saying what many of us were already nervously hoping for anyway: Let's not weaponize general-purpose robots. The six ...