It’s 2016 in South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg, and crime is rampant. The police have enlisted armored, bipedal robot guards, called Scouts, to work alongside law enforcement. This is good ...

Of all the inventions in the dystopian sci-fi series Black Mirror, perhaps none is more terrifying than the robotic guard dogs in Metalhead. In the episode, from the fourth series of the programme in ...

Man’s virtual best friend — or mankind’s greatest nightmare? Video of a robotic dog equipped with a submachine gun is circulating social media — months after a man living in Russia posted frightening ...

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The last thing you want to run into on a dark alley. If you thought the threat of police robots died with the demise of New York’s subway bot, you’d be wrong. A new rolling robot has been sent into ...

Robots that shoot are coming, but more testing needs to be done before they can roll onto the battlefield. Photos: Gun-toting bots Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers ...

Do you ever wonder what tomorrow holds? Some people are pretty convinced that the future will be filled with flying cars and jetpacks and robot butlers. But here in the year 2017, I’m not so sure ...