autonomous

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The plant has 2,000 robots and autonomous vehicles that together, it's claimed, can deliver a new car every minute.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

Low-cost autonomous battle systems, missiles, and interceptor missiles have dominated those conflicts, with combatants looking to add more autonomous systems and counter-drone systems to achieve technical superiority.

From Barron's • Apr. 6, 2026

The episode exposed a fault line in Silicon Valley between engineers who viewed autonomous targeting as an ethical red line and defense officials who saw it as essential.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

The Defense Department “is committed to scaling cost-effective autonomous solutions for the joint force and Lucas continues to be a prime example,” the spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

The whole dear notion of one’s own Self—marvelous old free-willed, free-enterprising, autonomous, independent, isolated island of a Self—is a myth.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas