Recent formal complaints to California regulators reveal strange incidents that have occurred since fully-autonomous taxis ...

Should robots working alongside law enforcement be used to deploy deadly force? The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is weighing that question this week as they consider a policy proposal that would ...

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to put the brakes on a controversial policy that would let police use robots for deadly force. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to ...

San Francisco police have been granted permission by city supervisors to kill civilians using robots. Yes ... they might want to deploy lethal force to render, in some horrific situation, somebody ...

SAN FRANCISCO--San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to put the brakes on a controversial policy that would have let police use robots for deadly force, reversing course just days after their ...

This week's filings with the Public Utilities Commission show how even the embryonic robot ride-hailing services in San Francisco can disrupt traffic. San Francisco agencies say they tracked 92 ...

Only a limited number of high-ranking officers could authorize use of robots as a deadly force option. San Francisco police currently have a dozen functioning ground robots used to assess bombs or ...

SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco is trying to slow the expansion of robotaxis after repeated incidents in which cars without drivers stopped and idled in the middle of the street for no obvious reason, ...

Editor's note: In our 2023 Startups to Watch feature, the Silicon Valley Business Journal and San Francisco Business ... but across other types of robots: self driving lawn mowers, tractors ...

After finding early success with a robot crop-spraying plane, the California startup Pyka has developed an autonomous cargo ...

Plans to let police use robots for deadly force in San Francisco have been paused following fierce pushback and warnings about the militarization and automation of policing. Just days ago their ...