The invasion of Ukraine has been described as the first “TikTok war,” with countless videos and photos posted to social media showing destroyed Russian tanks, which are promptly memed, and lately even ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Chinese military recently showed off numerous robot dogs outfitted with machine guns on their backs during the country’s biggest-ever drill alongside Cambodian troops, as Agence France-Presse ...

Many “the robot revolution is on its way” memes have come and gone over the years, fueled as much by unrealistic sci-fi movies as by many real-life breakthroughs in computing and engineering. Now the ...

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If you have a passing interest in robots, there's a good chance you've seen Spot the robotic dog from Boston Dynamics. It's an impressive, if slightly eerie, machine that keeps showing its usefulness ...