Boston Dynamics, known for its BigDog canine bot, is working to develop a humanoid robot called Atlas and an animal-like running robot called Cheetah. The robo-cat is due to arrive in 20 months.

Reducing that burden could come in two ways. First, the military could make the robots follow tablet-given instructions more autonomously, demanding less of the soldier’s time in battle.

Foundation Robotics breaks Silicon Valley taboos with weaponized humanoids, securing $10M defense contracts while competitors ...

She found that the soldiers often anthropomorphized their robots, assigned them human attributes such as genders and names, and even displayed a kind of empathy toward the machines. >”They would ...

Advanced Chinese-made robots with eerily lifelike capabilities are poised to enter the global market -- and some US lawmakers are already demanding that they be banned in the US, The Post has learned.

A U.S. military agency once focused on self-driving robot cars has turned its attention to humanoid robots that could roam tomorrow's battlefields. An upcoming announcement suggests the military ...

The growing use of unmanned systems across all military sectors is the direction of the future. Optimizing human-robot interaction is critical because the farther removed the operators are from the ...

Non-humanoid robots, on the other hand, have a decent shot at wider acceptance. - Lindsey Witmer Collins, WLCM “Welcome” App Studio 14. Lack Of A Universal Operating System ...

A U.S. military agency once focused on self-driving robot cars has turned its attention to humanoid robots that could roam tomorrow's battlefields.

But military leaders are also wary of heading down the road toward what have been called fully autonomous weapons: robots that can select targets, aim, and fire without human intervention.

The US military will have more robot soldiers on the battlefield than real ones by 2025, a top British intelligence expert has claimed. John Bassett, a security consultant with a 20-year career at … ...

Defense contractors on Thursday unveiled one of the most advanced humanoid robots ever built as part of the DARPA Virtual Robotics Challenge in Waltham, Mass. Called ATLAS, the giant is controlled ...