The Evolution of Humanoid Robot Companions In Our Homes
By Nicholas West As we continue to chart the evolution of humanoid robots, humanity seems to be bypassing ethics over practicality. Robots already have advanced…
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Where Does Your Info Come From? Mainstream Media Now Literally Using Robots to Write News
By Claire Bernish Corporate ownership of 90 percent of media outlets in the United States has made the term ‘mainstream journalist’ quite the oxymoron, but…
Biohybrid Robots Built From Living Tissue Start to Take Shape
By Victoria Webster, Case Western Reserve University (Activist Post Editor’s Note: We have featured many articles over the years warning about scientific and military developments…
After Fatality, Autonomous Car Development May Speed Up
By William Messner, Tufts University The world has witnessed enormous advances in autonomous passenger vehicle technologies over the last dozen years. The performance of microprocessors,…
US Marines Are Testing A Machine Gun Wielding Robot
By Joshua Krause As far as most people are concerned, the current wave of robotic automation that’s sweeping the globe is frightening enough. But the…
It’s Official: Robots Are Now Injuring And Killing Humans
By Nicholas West Even as robotics experts, universities and tech luminaries sound the alarm about the potential for a future filled with killer robots, this…
Decision to Blow up US Citizen With Robot Was Improvised in Less Than 20 Minutes
By Claire Bernish A hotly-contested decision by law enforcement to use a drone robot to blow up a U.S. citizen, who allegedly carried out the…
Dallas Sets New Police State Precedent: Using Robots to Kill Suspects
By Melissa Dykes The Orwellian nightmare continues, and this time, even casual low-level Black Lives Matter members are saying this event was staged. When it…
Legal Experts Raise Alarm over Shocking Use of “Killer Robot” in Dallas
By Nadia Prupis As news emerges that police officers in Dallas, Texas used an armed robot to kill the suspected shooter in Thursday night’s ambush,…
19-Year-Old Develops Robot Lawyer That Dismisses Your Unjust Parking Tickets
By Vic Bishop Simply and aptly named, DoNotPay, the ingenious business of a 19-year-old Londoner has already saved citizens of the UK an estimated £2.9…
UN Report Claims Terrorists “Actively Seeking” to Build Deadly Army of Intelligent Killer Robots
By Joseph Jankowski According to a piece of authoritative research published by the United Nations, terrorists are working to build armies of artificially intelligent killer robots capable…
Stephen Hawking: Governments are Engaged in an AI Arms Race That Could Destroy Humanity
By Matt Agorist On Monday, English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge, Stephen…
EU Wants to Redefine Robots as “Electronic Persons”
By Joshua Krause As of now, artificial intelligence is nowhere near as aware or as competent as a human. Heck, even the most powerful supercomputers…
What Could Go Wrong? Crime Fighting Robots Now Equipped with Self-Defense Instincts
By Claire Bernish Once thought to be too approachable for their own good — as in, able to efficaciously perform the tasks they’ve been designed…