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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever seen Black Mirror, then this announcement will surely give you chills. The Association of the U.S. Army's main annual convention in Washington, D.C. is happening this week and is where ...

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'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 ...

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Ghost Robotics initially made a name for itself with its very impressive early work with the Minitaur direct-drive quadruped in 2016. The company also made headlines in late 2021, when a now-deleted ...

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 ...

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 ...

WTF?! We've seen the worrying progress of robots from comical pieces of human-shaped metal staggering around like a drunk to Terminator-esque machines doing parkour. But at least nobody has been ...