Tesla Rifle: Great for crowd control but short range, perfect for multiple enemies. Gatling Laser: Uses Fusion Cores, high ...

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 ...

Terrorists could use ‘swarms’ of robots programmed to kill human beings - and it may be difficult to fight against them, the UN has warned. Experts from around the world gathered in Geneva this year ...

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 ...

Over 100 nations that are part of the international Convention on Conventional Weapons will debate a ban on so called 'killer robots' next year, it has been announced. At their five-year review ...

CHINA has shown the world the latest high-tech weapons being added to a growing military arsenal – but is all as it seems? With the world watching, Xi smiled as he walked flanked by Kim Jong-un and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A warning to all smugglers: A new underwater robot could be used to sniff out contraband — including weapons and drugs — hidden aboard ships. Developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of ...