Robots

Nick Guetterman looks over the data shared by his crop sprayer and cell phone while on his farm near Bucyrus, Kan., on Feb. 19. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Tech firm aims to cash in on farming robots that move rocks with one click

Nihal Krishan · June 1, 2021 11:00 am

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Could war with China be lost in cyberspace?

Jamie McIntyre · April 16, 2021 3:00 am

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

America’s coming robot Navy: What could go wrong?

Jamie McIntyre · April 2, 2021 3:00 am

Philadelphia airport begins delivering food via robot

Carly Roman · February 24, 2021 1:04 am

FAA signs off on drones that require no human operation

Christopher Hutton · January 22, 2021 4:00 am

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that the Senate advanced on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

To cut costs owing to COVID-19, restaurateurs consider the use of robots for some work

Jay Heflin · November 6, 2020 4:00 am

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Los Angeles Fire Department unveils first-in-the-nation firefighting robot

Tyler Van Dyke · October 21, 2020 10:23 pm

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

An algorithm for a wingman: The coming robot revolution in future wars

Jamie McIntyre · September 18, 2020 3:00 am

Artificial intelligence.

‘I have no desire to wipe out humans’: Robot writes op-ed for the Guardian

Spencer Neale · September 9, 2020 8:34 pm

Meet your robot caretaker

Starre Vartan · August 14, 2020 3:00 am

A worker from a Servpro disaster recovery team wearing a protective suit and respirator peers out a window as he waits to exit the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Wash. for a break from cleaning the facility, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, near Seattle. The nursing home is at the center of the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Washington state.

Coronavirus prods companies to speed up automation plans, costing jobs

Jay Heflin · July 24, 2020 3:00 am

"There's been this really alarming anti-Muslim climate cultivated in this country not just by Republican candidates ... but by the American media itself," Greenwald said. (AP file photo/Matthias Schrader)

‘It’s just the start’: Glenn Greenwald slams ‘terrifying’ video of robot policing park

Spencer Neale · May 8, 2020 7:51 pm