Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As technology evolves, seemingly at warp speed, the FDNY is harnessing the power of robotics. The department's robotics team is ...

When firefighters arrive at a major blaze, they often face the same problem. They have to walk into danger without knowing exactly what is inside. Smoke hides everything. Floors may be unstable. Toxic ...

Fighting fires could be done remotely without the need to place firefighting crews directly in potentially dangerous situations by using collaborative teams of artificial intelligence-powered robots ...

Disaster sites vary as widely as rescue missions. Using robotics to help often requires multiple robots to survey, climb, ...

Yesterday, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a new contest: create a humanoid robot that can navigate a world made for humans. We take a look at five of them and ...

The Ministry of Defence faces big decisions on how and when to use autonomous weapons – and how much to trust AI when ...