Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused with artificial intelligence carefully combs a cotto...

Aigen's solar-powered, AI-driven robot "Element" autonomously weeds fields without chemicals, offering a sustainable solution to labour sho...

China has unveiled a mosquito-like flying robot designed for stealth missions, sparking global concerns about potential misuse. Developed b...

The UN is holding its first General Assembly meeting on autonomous weapons, aiming to revive stalled efforts to regulate AI-controlled arms...

The latest iterations of technology enabling drones and other machines to operate autonomously owe their advancements to deep learning, an ...

One is pricey and slow: For a new force of up to 13 nuclear-powered attack submarines, the Australian taxpayer will fork out an average of ...

The Australian Navy is investing in two different submarine technologies to counter the rising power of China. One approach involves buildi...

Paperclips of doom - Most disaster scenarios start in the same place: machines will outstrip human capacities, escape human control and ref...

In the military, AI-infused systems can speed up the tempo of battlefield decisions to such a degree that they create entirely new risks of...

Recently, a humanoid robot named Erica stunned audience members in Madrid.

Advances in robotics and AI have raised concern that sex robots may outperform men .

Proponents of a ban, including the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots pressure group, insist that human beings must ultimately be responsible f...

"Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at times scales faster than humans can comp...

Currently, scientists have to recruit human divers to inject each tentacle of the starfish in order to kill it, a process that's expensive,...

Autonomous weapons would take human soldiers out of the line of fire and reduce the number of casualties. Robots would be better soldiers.

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech executives have chosen five as the magic number of years for their big predictions t...

To anyone worried about killer robots taking over society, Google chairman Eric Schmidt says relax. "These fears are normal ," said Schmidt...