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 stop ...

Researchers are calling for regulation to guide the responsible and ethical development of bio-hybrid robotics -- a ground-breaking science which fuses artificial components with living tissue and ...

The AI boom only underscores a problem that has existed for years. Perhaps the best analogy is the evolution of the Federal Aviation Administration. Fatalities in the first decades of aviation forced ...

More regulation and better ethical frameworks are required in the development of “living robots” researchers have said. Increasingly, engineers are creating robots that rely not only on artificial ...

Robots presented at an AI forum in Switzerland on Friday said they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems — and vowed not steal humans’ jobs or rebel against us. But, in the ...

VIENNA, April 29 (Reuters) - Austria called on Monday for fresh efforts to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in weapons systems that could create so-called 'killer robots', as it hosted a ...

Human Rights Watch issued an report on “killer robots,” automated AI weapons which can kill people without human instruction or oversight, ahead of the first United Nations General Assembly meeting on ...

The UN secretary-general has called for "global guardrails" on AI. As the United Nations General Assembly continues discussions this week about regulating weapons that use artificial intelligence, ...

Researchers at MIT are testing a robotic forklift prototype they hope can one day unload and move military supplies in a war zone, keeping soldiers out of harm’s way. MIT scientists used robotics and ...

Tesla’s Optimus robot promises to reshape the future—but at what cost? As humanoid robots inch closer to widespread deployment, the lack of clear government oversight is raising alarms. This video ...