Though armed conflict is becoming increasingly rare as the decades go by, global military spending is rising sharply with each passing year, reaching unprecedented numbers in the history of warfare.

We use robots to do plenty of jobs that we don’t want to do. Even the military uses robots in tasks that are dangerous for humans. So, how attached can one become to a robot that works with them? One ...

The Roombas in question were not commercially available — they were development robots given to testers. However, several researchers have uncovered privacy issues with robot vacuums produced by ...