The Army of the future will use advanced ground robotics technologies to increase lethality, stand-off, penetration and convergence according to senior leaders in the Army Futures Command.

Future Army robots may not look like squirrels, and they definitely won’t leap for peanuts, but their internal decision-making capabilities may someday be modeled on them.

Unmanned robots already have proven their worth on the battlefield, neutralizing improvised explosive devices, and more capable ones are coming in the future, according to the commander of U.S ...

Four years into Army Futures Command, experts say the effort is on track, but they warn that leadership changes, potential budget cuts and a few contracting and technological hiccups could put it ...

The Army is transforming its fleet of transportable robots to a common set of standards to expedite modernization, interoperability, autonomy and mission flexibility.

Beyond the already deployed human-controlled drone fleets, military engineers are already tinkering with lethal AI-driven autonomous battlefield bots.

The future of the force could see one quarter of the 4,000 soldiers in the Brigade Combat Team replaced with robots and drones.

The Army has developed a robot to protect soldiers against nuclear, biological and chemical weapons to make the battlefield safer for men and women in uniform.

Robots have stepped out of the science fiction pages and onto the battlefield. Thousands are deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, supporting military operations on land, at sea, and in the air. Some ...

Army scientists, along with university researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have created a LEGO-like structure to connect materials they hope could build robots made of robots.

In the future, an Army brigade might have 3,000 human troops instead of 4,000, but a lot more robots, according to recent remarks by General Robert Cone, the Army's head of Training and Doctrine ...

Scientists have developed software to ensure that if a robot falls, it can get itself back up, meaning future military robots will be less reliant on their soldier handlers.