China’s dominance of the rare earth metals business—with a chokehold on Western militaries and key industries—has become a key geopolitical issue. Chinese companies make most of the parts that go into ...

In an old Soviet-era warehouse just miles from the front in Donetsk Oblast, sparks fly from a welding torch as Ukrainian engineers crouch over the metal frame of a ground robot. Known as an unmanned ...

WIESBADEN, Germany—Battlefields from Ukraine to Gaza are transforming into sci-fi realms of AI-guided military robots and relentless surveillance. Alongside bullets and bombs, data now flies in all ...

A Hero-120 loitering munition from Uvision is displayed alongside Rheinmetall Canada’s Mission Master vehicle during the REPMUS exercise on Sept. 23, 2025, in Troia, Portugal. (Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo ...

Artificial intelligence technology is poised to transform national security. In the United States, experts and policymakers are already experimenting with large language models that can aid in ...

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Humanoid robots are more vulnerable to ethical issues due to their resemblance to humans. A representative example is military-use humanoid robots. General robots struggle to climb stairs, pick up ...