The author examines the ethical implications of a new Pentagon research grant to develop autonomous packs of robots that would hunt down humans ominously referred to as "noncooperative human subject[s]."

The Pentagon is looking for contractors to provide a "Multi-Robot Pursuit System" that will let packs of robots "search for and detect a non-cooperative human" invoking ethical concerns about roving packs of robots with tasers chasing down demonstrators.

As more and more countries field advanced military robots, some researchers are beginning to question the ethics of using autonomous weapons in military operations and are calling for more research into engineering ethical safeguards.

Intelligent swarms of autonomous, decentralized robots that look like insects could soon be deployed for military information-gathering and reconnaissance.

Killer robots which can change their shape to squeeze under doors and through cracks in walls to track their prey are moving from the realms of science fiction to the front line in the fight against terrorism.

An examination of the Army's current efforts to deploy unmanned ground vehicles into combat.

Governments around the world are rushing to develop military robots capable of killing autonomously without considering the legal and moral implications, warns a leading roboticist. But another robotics expert argues that robotic soldiers could perhaps be made more ethical than human ones.

Israeli military leaders have begun early planning for a new, robotic defense system, armed with enough artificial intelligence that it "could take over completely" from flesh-and-blood operators in the event of an all-out nuclear attack.

The South African National Defence Force "is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise.

The U.S. military will spend about $1.7 billion on ground-based robots in the next five years, according to figures reported by a defense analyst.