Our overarching position is that the police should be prohibited from using robots to enact violence. Robots should not be used to kill, subdue, push, constrain, or otherwise control or harm people.

A police robot dog was shot for the first time this month, the latest sign that the robots are taking bullets and tasks from the mundane to the dangerous.

There are a variety of dangerous robots that kill humans in films, such as this one from 1927’s “Metropolis.” Everett Collection / Everett Col.

The fear that these types of weapons would open a Pandora's Box—and set off a "reckless, dangerous arms race," as Public Citizen warned of Friday—is not new. Back in 2017, dozens of artificial ...

Robots are being designed to do things we humans can't, especially “ANYmal,” an industrial robot. 7News On Your Side’s Lindsey Mastis met ANYmal and its team at the AI + Robotics Summit ...

Anthropic is tending to the "welfare" of AI bots — before they grow up and turn on us ...

Car companies were among the first to embrace automation, replacing humans with crude, often dangerous robots on assembly lines. In the 1980s, robots were a rare example of the U.S. car industry ...

These robots are two examples of projects on display during a robotics showcase at CU Boulder on Thursday. “The point of robotics is to try and take humans out of dangerous equations ...

Ozmo, a system for washing windows, is safer and faster than humans, its company president says. Good morning. It’s Friday.

When disaster strikes, drones and robots can be sent into danger zones to scout for survivors. The RoBoa from a student team at ETH Zurich is designed to snake its way through debris that would ...