A robot dog armed with a sniper rifle was unveiled this week in Washington, D.C. at the annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army. The robot, developed by Ghost Robotics, carries a ...

Boston Dynamics, the company most commonly associated with robot dogs, prohibits the weaponization of its Spot devices. That's not the case for all robot dog manufacturers, however. One of them, Ghost ...

We've seen plenty of robo-dogs emerging over the past few years, and they've turned out to be both adorable and fascinating to watch while they perform all sorts of tricks. But when someone decides to ...

The dog-shaped robot body that’s been creeping its way into the mainstream has already been seen to be terrifying and awfully capable, but that design is about to get even more dystopian. The SPUR ...

You've seen Spot run. You've seen Spot jump. You've seen Spot do cute little booty-shaking dance routines. Now, see Spot fire lethal weapons. Sword Defense Systems has presented a precision rifle for ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Quadrupedal robots are one of the most interesting developments in robotics in recent years. They’re small, ...

A robot dog armed with a sniper rifle was unveiled this week in Washington, D.C. at the annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army. The robot, developed by Ghost Robotics, carries a ...

For years, we’ve been warning that it was only a matter of time — and now, the inevitable has happened. Somebody strapped an honest-to-god sniper rifle to the back of a quadrupedal robot dog. An image ...

We shouldn't be surprised that most of the latest tech has a military use, but the speed at which cutting-edge creations are being armed to the teeth does seem a little disconcerting. The military's ...

“Robot dogs” have been spotted in the nation’s capital this week and have been treated like dogs, according to videos on Twitter. The robots have been seen inside and outside the convention center in ...

A legal dispute over robotic patents is devolving into a war of words, as Ghost Robotics fires back against Boston Dynamics. The Philadelphia firm calls the suit both “obstructive and baseless" in a ...