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A company called Throwflame is selling a robot dog that has a flamethrower strapped to its back that can shoot 30-foot streams of fire.
Robot Dogs

Great, They’re Putting Flamethrowers on Robot Dogs Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The nation's leading stungun maker is pulling plans to put Taser drones in schools, but that wasn't enough for most its ethics board, which has resigned.
Ethics

Most of Company’s Ethics Board Resigns in Disgust Over Taser-Wielding Drones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cheap, lightweight killer robots are just around the corner — and major military powers, including the US, are doing very little to stop them.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Professor Warns That Cartels Could Use “Slaughterbots” to Evade Justice

By Noor Al-Sibai

DARPA-funded scientist Christoffer Heckman argues that some sort of new guidelines are needed to keep engineers from building autonomous weapons.
DARPA

DARPA Scientist: Engineers Must Stop Making Autonomous Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

Prototypes of killer robots are already in development and could be ready for action within two years, according to a new Vox story.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts: It’d Be “Relatively Easy” to Deploy Killer Robots by 2021

By Kristin Houser

In a new profile, leaders in the movement to ban autonomous weapons such as killer robots describe how they're making progress.
Robotics

Meet the People Fighting Back Against Militarized Killer Robots

By Dan Robitzski

On Monday, the British military started a four-week experiment to test out over 70 new technologies. Among them are autonomous drones.
Robotics

The UK is Testing Robots to Deliver Food and Ammo to Soldiers

By Dan Robitzski

The U.K.'s Ministry of Defense is actively building military drones that can target and kill with minimal human involvement.
Self-Driving Vehicles

The UK Is Developing Autonomous Killer Robots

By Dan Robitzski

The Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) has selected 31 students to participate in a four-year-long program focused on developing AI weapons.
Artificial Intelligence

China Recruits “Patriotic” Children to Develop Its AI Weapons

By Kristin Houser

A Chinese-made robot can automatically zap mosquitos to stop the spread of disease. It's like a Roomba meets the Terminator.
Robotics

A Toy-Sized, Laser-Wielding Robot Is Here to Kill Mosquitoes

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. military's AI center will help the nation's armed forces develop and implement the latest in artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

U.S. Military Declares Mandate on AI: “We Want to Be the Threat”

By Kristin Houser

Hundreds of AI experts just signed a pledge vowing to never develop lethal autonomous weapons and calling for their global ban.
Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Experts Vow They Won’t Help Create Lethal Autonomous Weapons

By Kristin Houser

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Artificial Intelligence

Germany Pledges Not to Use “Killer Robots”

By Dom Galeon

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Artificial Intelligence

An AI-Powered Network Could Save the US Navy Billions of Dollars

By Patrick Caughill

The United Nations is Considering a Possible Ban on “Killer Robots”
Artificial Intelligence

The United Nations is Considering a Possible Ban on “Killer Robots”

By Patrick Caughill

Today, World Leaders Will Meet to Decide the Future of “Killer Robots”
Robotics

Today, World Leaders Will Meet to Decide the Future of “Killer Robots”

By Brad Jones