Videos that suggest China may be building a robot army sound like science fiction, but social media says it's real. DW Fact Check investigates.
Some media users have been sharing videos that they claim are proof that China has started training humanoid robot soldiers. It turns out, however, that these videos were – surprise surprise – ...
Humanoid robotics startup Foundation Future Industries is aiming to build robots for defense as well as industrial work, with founder Sankaet Pathak telling Reuters the company eventually wants its ...
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Rise of the AI Soldiers

The Phantom MK-1 looks the part of an AI soldier. Encased in jet black steel with a tinted glass visor, it conjures a visceral dread far beyond what may be evoked by your typical humanoid robot. And ...
Armed uncrewed ground vehicles (UGVs) are becoming ever more involved in the Ukraine war [Tencore] Since the start of ...
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence has authorized the Zmiy Droid 12.7, a domestically built armored machine-gun system, for frontline strike and reconnaissance missions. The approval is part of a broader ...
The Army Research Laboratory is exploring new applications of AI designed to better enable forward-operating robot “tanks” to acquire targets, discern and organize war-crucial information, surveil ...
Ghost Robotics initially made a name for itself with its very impressive early work with the Minitaur direct-drive quadruped in 2016. The company also made headlines in late 2021, when a now-deleted ...
Faraday Future may have technically built a small handful of EVs that can somehow legally be driven on public roads, but it's still not a real car company. What exactly is going on behind the scenes ...
Analysts at Barclays said China’s top three producers — Agibot, Unitree and UBTech — accounted for 70 per cent of global ...