Colombian guerrilla fighters conducted 8,000 attacks with drones and explosives in 2025 – Copyright AFP/File Raul ARBOLEDA As drones, robotics and autonomous ...

Autonomy is the ability to make choices yourself rather than having them made for you by other people. Most of us desire autonomy—who wants to be a slave to another's wishes? But we are certainly not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Hall covers entrepreneurial topics that help companies grow. Pandemic-induced work-from-home arrangements gave a lot of ...

Advances in AI are redrawing what counts as an autonomous weapon system. It is no longer only the effector—the drone or the loitering munition—that delivers force, but also the AI-enabled kill chain ...

Western militaries are still arguing over what “autonomy” means while Russia and China are already building machines that don’t need GPS, data links, or even instructions. And unless the United States ...

Strategic autonomy is having a moment. European leaders are invoking it to justify a historic defense buildup; India’s foreign ministry has made it the organizing principle of a policy that buys ...

A bold, new era marked by mass adoption of autonomous machines is nearing realization. Farmers are more interested than ever in the shift to full automation. Ohio State University professor John ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The first thing to note is that autonomy does not imply withdrawal from the ...