The Army has begun fielding these to all types of units and providing the equipment before the Soldiers deploy so they can train on the systems before they reach the battlefield. The robots are ...

"It sounds like the agency's after an even more sophisticated robot-soldier synergy," Wired notes, pointing to earlier research on mind-controlled robots. "Granted, that research was performed on ...

There are also moves being made to develop cyborg soldiers - humans and animals augmented by technology. So what will the robot army of the future look like? Here are some of the breakthroughs.

is meant to produce a robot that can carry 1,000 pounds of supplies for a nine-man infantry squad. That’s more than 100 pounds per soldier. SMET will required to travel up to 60 miles over 72 ...

Soldiers with the 25th Infantry Division conduct training with the Common Robotic System Individual variant. A medium version of the system is under development as part of the Army's robotics ...

The U.S. Army may send robotic soldiers to the battlefield within the next 30 years, General Robert Cone said at the Army Aviation symposium on Jan. 15. It is part of the Army's effort to become ...

pitting the soldiers against the AI by placing the robot in the middle of a traffic circle and tasking the soldiers with approaching it undetected. The robot failed to detect any of the soldiers.

He even claims that superpowers like Russian and China may have already developed nightmarish robot soldiers. It could spell the end of human involvement in frontline combat altogether ...