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.

President Zelensky’s fleet of un-crewed ground vehicles (UGVs) carry Kalashnikov machine guns, grenade launchers and kamikaze ...

The U.S. military is looking for autonomous freighters that can transport supplies into dangerous waters, according to a DIU ...

A San Francisco-based robotics company says the Trump administration has expressed interest in deploying its high-tech robots onto future battlefields. The tech firm, Foundation, has already scored ...

Since the Russia-Ukraine war began in 2022, military leaders around the world have drawn lessons from it about an ever-evolving technological landscape. Both sides continue to deploy and counteract ...

At China’s Victory Day parade in September 2025, it was not the marching troops or rolling tanks that made headlines, but the next-generation weapons systems on display. Uncrewed ground vehicles, ...

On a recent autumn morning in Washington, amid the polished halls of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) annual expo, a machine that once belonged in science fiction quietly took center ...

BAE Systems has completed a new round of trials for its Autonomous Tactical Light ...

Humanoid robots are more vulnerable to ethical issues due to their resemblance to humans. A representative example is military-use humanoid robots. General robots struggle to climb stairs, pick up ...

The use of robots in war dates back to World War II with the German Goliath remote-controlled explosive vehicles and the Soviet Union’s wirelessly controlled, unmanned Teletanks. In today’s military ...