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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) illustrated both the dangers of consensus diplomacy and the strength of humanitarian disarmament. The CCW, unlike some ...

A unmanned vehicle, part of the Multi-Utility Tactical Transport family of systems, operates on Red Beach during a 2017 training exercise at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California. (U.S. Navy ...