UN Wants A Moratorium On 'Killer Robots'

'Killer Robots Should Not Have Power To Destroy Human Life': U.N. Report Warns Britain And U.S Have Semi-Autonomous Machines -- Dail...

The Rise Of Robot Wars

Terror threat: Drones could fall into the hands of terrorists Schmidt warns The Rise Of Robot Wars: Google Chief Warns Armed Drones Will Soo...

Maduro Narrowly Wins Venezuela Election

Nicolas Maduro Wins Venezuela Presidential Election -- Reuters Socialist candidate Nicolas Maduro has won a narrow victory in Venezuela'...

Can We Trust Killer Robots?

The X-47B, the Navy's prototype for an unmanned strike plane. The aircraft may eventually be able to set off on a flight plan, identify ...

Say Hello To The New Military-Robotics Complex

A microdrone during a demo flight at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Robots And The End Of War As We Know I...

Private Robot Armies

MQ-1 Predator controls. Wikipedia The DIY Terminator: Private Robot Armies And The Algorithm-Run Future Of War -- Fast Company In the latest...

Are Military Machinese Being Given Too Much Power?

Science Fiction? Nick Kaloterakis The Terminator Scenario: Are We Giving Our Military Machines Too Much Power? -- Popular Science Even as we...

Will Robot Soldiers Make Better Decisions On A Battle Field?

Swarms of Robot Soldiers Could Make Better Decisions Than Human Leaders on Data-Strewn Battlefields -- Popular Science Modern warfare relies...

Say Hello To Northrop's Robot With One Big Gun

CaMEL Gun-Bot Wired Northrop Shows Off A Touchscreen-Controlled Robot Wielding A Giant Machine Gun -- Popular Science Even the Army seems...

Are Robot Weapons About To Be Regulated By The U.N.?

A predator drone like those used in missions over Afghanistan and Iraq prepared to be shipped from a General Atomics plant in Poway, Calif.,...

Rules Of Engagement Will Soon Be Written As Software For Unmanned Drones

CREECH AFB, Nev. -- Ground crew watch as an MQ-9 Reaper moves out of its shelter at Creech AFB, Nev. June 25, 2008. Larger and more powerful...

UAVs 'Changing The Face Of Warfare'

MQ-9 Reaper And It's Pilot. Image from Flickr From IDGA: No other weapon has changed the way the US military wages war in recent years l...

The Pros And Cons Of A Robot Army

A picture taken on October 12, 2009 during the Israel Defense exhibition at the Ganei Ha-tarucha Fair Center in Tel Aviv shows a new Unmanne...

The Age Of The Killer Robot Is No Longer A Sci-fi Fantasy

You can't appeal to robots for mercy or empathy - or punish them afterwards. CHRIS COADY From The Independent: In the dark, in the silen...

Campaign Asks For International Treaty To Limit War Robots

Robots are synonymous with modern warfare, but what are the ethical implications? (Image: Ethan Miller/Getty) From New Scientist: A robotics...

Robots Take Center Stage in U.S. War in Afghanistan

An unmanned K-MAX helicopter, which can carry loads of up to 6,000 pounds, is being deployed to Afghanistan to help supply troops with heavy...

The New War Machine

From The Financial Times: Trooper Talon doesn’t get tired or hungry. He doesn’t get scared and he doesn’t panic under fire. He fights on eve...

Scientists Debate A Robot War

The Peterborough Examiner: In the 1921 play that invented the word "robot" -Czech writer Karel Capek's "Rossum's Univ...