Robots could one day keep troops out of combat, but opponents say deploying them will have dangerous consequences.

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots has taken its cause to the United Nations. Experts gathered in Geneva on Monday to put pressure on the Convention on Conventional Weapons for a global ban on ...

Deep tech; UN fails to agree on ‘killer robot’ ban — get ready for the autonomous weapons race This could have been their last chance to regulate slaughterbots ...

Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have argued that autonomous weapons should be banned because of the threat they pose to humanity.

Countries should quickly agree a treaty banning the use of so-called killer robots "before it is too late", activists said Monday as talks on the issue resumed at the UN.

Elon Musk and other tech luminaries have previously urged the UN to ban autonomous weapons in an open letter to the organization, referring to it as the “third revolution in warfare.” Just ...

But so far, the Biden administration has rejected calls to ban the use of killer robots. During a U.N. meeting in Geneva Thursday, the U.S. instead proposed establishing a “code of conduct ...

A police robot, the first one in Spain, is tested in a street of Malaga by the city's local police on March 19, 2024. ... "California should step up and ban the tool outright." ...

The European Parliament passed a resolution calling for an international ban on military killer robots, which it says are an imminent global threat.