A military drone may have autonomously attacked humans for the first time without being instructed to do so, according to a recent report by the UN Security Council. The report, published in March, ...

Turkish company STM displayed a Kargu loitering munition fitted with a model of a new interchangeable anti-tank warhead at the Azerbaijan International Defence Exhibition (ADEX) held in Baku from 24 ...

The era of fully autonomous killer robots, capable of identifying and engaging targets without human oversight, seems to have begun. The UN report refers to the Kargu-2 drone as a “loitering munition, ...

A Turkish quadcopter in fully autonomous mode may have attacked retreating forces in Libya last year, according to a United Nations (U.N.) report. An STM Kargu-2 operated by forces with the Libyan ...

The age of autonomous warfare has arrived. Or so it would seem. In other words, they were, as the report put it, “lethal autonomous weapons systems.” This sounds like a major milestone. For more than ...

Professors from top universities and research institutes are together demanding a ban on the use of lethal autonomous weapons against humans. In their appeal to the world governments, they cited a ...

Professors from top universities and research institutes are together demanding a ban on the use of lethal autonomous weapons against humans. In their appeal to the world governments, they cited a ...