{"id":558965,"date":"2026-07-20T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/558965\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:17:07","slug":"how-armed-robots-could-become-the-militarys-weapon-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/558965\/","title":{"rendered":"How armed robots could become the military&#8217;s weapon of choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"J2K2WCLE4BCANCGTDXT2YX2E44\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Looking for his next business, San Francisco entrepreneur Sankaet Pathak sought an idea that might change the future. He settled on building humanlike robots with weapons.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3KURFSKWNZE3DAKMLGEHRTA7LM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">In May, his company, Foundation, <a href=\"https:\/\/xgjzloifyvgpbmyonaya.supabase.co\/storage\/v1\/object\/public\/files\/MdRDvy6YwW\/original\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/xgjzloifyvgpbmyonaya.supabase.co\/storage\/v1\/object\/public\/files\/MdRDvy6YwW\/original\">released footage<\/a> of its sleek Phantom robot loading a mortar. In the video, the robot moves gingerly \u2014 but Pathak says he can envision a future of autonomous weapons, with robots making quick decisions on the battlefield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking for his next business, San Francisco entrepreneur Sankaet Pathak sought an idea that might change the future.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-558965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}