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 ...

China's state-owned defense giant Norinco in February unveiled a military vehicle capable of autonomously conducting combat-support operations at 50 km/hour. It was powered by DeepSeek, the company ...

Analysis of AI weaponization and the UN's effort to regulate "killer robots." Explores legal and ethical challenges, IHL ...

The Urban Kill Zone: We break down how these mechanical beasts are designed to neutralize the human advantage in narrow, ...

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 ...

Using killer robots for war would also be a windfall for arms makers, Geoffrey Hinton said. AI has already transformed the battlefield with AI-driven drones and uncrewed systems. AI could mean fewer ...

Calder McHugh is deputy editor of POLITICO Nightly.

As the U.S. Department of Defense and military contractors are focusing on implementing artificial intelligence into their technologies, the single greatest concern lies in the incorporation of AI ...

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 ...

BOSTON — It was a special "dog" that captured the attention of legislators, state workers and even tourists at the Massachusetts State House on Thursday. It responded to commands: Stay! Go! and even ...

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 ...

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 ...