Videos that suggest China may be building a robot army sound like science fiction, but social media says it's real. DW Fact Check investigates.
Ukraine has embarked on a programme to deploy armed robots on the battlefield against Russian forces.
A San Francisco-based robotics company says the Trump administration has expressed interest in deploying its high-tech robots onto future battlefields. The tech firm, Foundation, has already scored ...
Meet Phantom MK1: an imposing humanoid robot designed to transform battlefields, the moon and even Mars—and it may already be taking jobs near you. The 5-foot-9, 176-pound steel and plastic android ...
Humanoid robotics startup Foundation Future Industries is aiming to build robots for defense as well as industrial work, with founder Sankaet Pathak telling Reuters the company eventually wants its ...
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Rise of the AI Soldiers

The Phantom MK-1 looks the part of an AI soldier. Encased in jet black steel with a tinted glass visor, it conjures a visceral dread far beyond what may be evoked by your typical humanoid robot. And ...
Since the Russia-Ukraine war began in 2022, military leaders around the world have drawn lessons from it about an ever-evolving technological landscape. Both sides continue to deploy and counteract ...
The Army Research Laboratory is exploring new applications of AI designed to better enable forward-operating robot “tanks” to acquire targets, discern and organize war-crucial information, surveil ...
From AI-enabled drones in Ukraine to debates over killer robots, experts are arguing how artificial intelligence is ...
This screengrab from a video released by the Chinese-backed CCTV shows a robot dog firing a rifle during military exercises in Cambodia. Congress is worried that robot dogs with machine guns will be ...