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The self-driving squad car is rolling out as part of a year-long trial in coordination with the non-profit Policing Lab.

Florida Unleashes Autonomous Police Cruisers That Deploy Thermal Imaging Drones

Leaked documents reveal how Amazon plans to stop hiring humans so its workforce of robots can replace their jobs.

Secret Plans Reveal Amazon Plot to Replace 600,000 Workers With Robot Army

By Frank Landymore

During Wednesday's Tesla earnings call, CEO Elon Musk made some strangely suspicious remarks about securing control over his "robot army."

Elon Musk Makes Suspicious Remarks About His Robot Army

By Victor Tangermann

Western executives warn that China's heavily roboticized manufacturing industry could quickly leave the West behind.

Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China

By Victor Tangermann

A dazzling video shows a quadcopter drone gently shooing unwanted critters away from poultry farms with a laser light show.

Japanese Farmers Send Out Automated Laser Drones to Defend Chickens

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images

Amazon Drones Kamikaze Into Construction Equipment, Burst Into Flames

By Frank Landymore

A video of one of Waymo's autonomous ride-hailing vehicles driving over the carefully groomed lawn of a golf course has gone viral.

Waymo Says There’s a Perfect Reasonable Explanation for Its Car Roaming a Golf Course

By Victor Tangermann

A viral video shows a delivery robot in Los Angeles brake checking and cutting off a man with cerebral palsy using a mobility scooter.

Delivery Robot Torments Disabled Man

By Frank Landymore

A video making its rounds on social media shows an engineer from a startup called Skild AI taking a chainsaw to the limbs of a robot dog.

New AI Can Control a Robot Even If Its Legs Get Chainsawed Off

By Victor Tangermann

Recent DARPA robots include sea-based microdrones, cockroach-style surveillance bots, and even cyborg insects.

DARPA Going Hard on Insect-Sized Spy Robots

A video showing a robotics engineer violently yanking a humanoid robot around by a chain wrapped around its neck is making its rounds online.

Disturbing Video Shows Man Jerking Robot Around by Chain Around Its Neck

By Victor Tangermann

Named Robin the Robot, the chirpy AI-powered bot is designed to behave and sound like a seven-year-old girl.

Hospitals Deploying Robot Programmed to Act Like Child to Comfort Pediatric Patients

By Frank Landymore

Called the "first fully autonomous humanoid-operate store," the kiosk chain is said to be rapidly expanding to 100 locations.

China Opens Bodega Entirely Run by Robot

A video that has gone viral on social media shows a humanoid robot's face glancing around the room with a quizzical expression.

Alarming New Video Shows Robot Making Incredibly Realistic Facial Expressions

By Victor Tangermann

Two flying cars collided with each other during an airshow rehearsal in Changchun, a city in northeastern China.

Dark Smoke Billows After Horrific Collision Between Flying Cars

By Victor Tangermann

A new viral video shows a kickboxing and seemingly unstoppable humanoid robot shrugging off a flying dropkick from a human being.

Unstoppable Martial Arts Robot Can Take a Direct Dropkick Without Falling Down

By Victor Tangermann