Ukraine has embarked on a programme to deploy armed robots on the battlefield against Russian forces.

More than 30 countries have already called for a ban on such weapons, warning that the risks extend beyond technology and ...

The war in Ukraine has entered a striking new phase: armed robots are now fighting on the front lines, with human soldiers increasingly stepping back from the most dangerous positions and letting ...

President Zelensky’s fleet of un-crewed ground vehicles (UGVs) carry Kalashnikov machine guns, grenade launchers and kamikaze ...

In a sprawling 20,000-word essay published last month, Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, warned that advances in artificial intelligence could pave the way for a wave of killer robots.

Nearly two hours after President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he was banning Anthropic products from the ...

The Pentagon had kept trying to leave itself little escape hatches in the agreements that it proposed to Anthropic. It would ...

The Anthropic vs Trump standoff is about control. Pentagon wants unrestricted access to use AI tools as it wants, but Anthropic refuses to comprise on safety.

I’ve spent the past few days asking AI companies to convince me that the prospects for AI safety have not dimmed. Just a few ...

Some media users have been sharing videos that they claim are proof that China has started training humanoid robot soldiers. It turns out, however, that these videos were – surprise surprise – ...

The robotic skull of a T-600 cyborg used in the movie Terminator 3. In his lab at George Mason University in Virginia, Sean Luke has all kinds of robots: big ones with wheels; medium ones that look ...