These ideas and more were swirling as my colleagues and I met in early November at one of the world’s largest autonomous robotics-focused research conferences – the IEEE International Conference on ...

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 ...

It wouldn't take much to turn this remotely operated mobile machine gun into an autonomous killer robot. Pfc. Rhita Daniel, U.S. Marine Corps The U.S. military is intensifying its commitment to the ...

The U.S. military is intensifying its commitment to the development and use of autonomous weapons, as confirmed by an update to a Department of Defense directive. The update, released January 25, 2023 ...

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 ...

Military robots equipped with artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons raise a major question: can they respect human ...

I am not connected to Article 36 in any capacity, nor have I received any funding from them. I did write a short opinion/policy piece on AWS that was posted on their website. The U.S. military is ...

New legislation supported by local leaders like Boston Dynamics would ban the weaponization of robots except by the military and police. Boston Dynamics, the company behind lifelike advanced robots ...

August 4, 2025: In an unexpected event, Ukrainian robotic vehicles induced several Russian soldiers to surrender without any Ukrainian troops present. Robots and drones have also cooperated to take ...

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 ...

Can it be that the Terminator movies were right and robots will consume the Earth? Seems that’s what one researcher thinks at least. We are beginning to see the first steps towards an international ...

War Robots: Frontiers is a multiplayer, third-person mech shooter delivering intense, tactical skirmishes featuring immense, heavily customizable mechs. Taking place 200 years after the original War ...