Stealth Ukraine Ground Drones Hunt In the Dark
▻https://spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-ground-drones
Ukrainian roboticists build toward a human-free front line
Borys Drozhak has a vision: a front line almost free of humans, patrolled by flying #drones and ground #robots, and continuously monitored by AI-controlled sensor networks. And it’s not a pipe dream. Ukrainian roboticists have made major strides in that direction over the past four years. Remotely controlled ground vehicles fitted with #machine_guns and #grenade_launchers now patrol the #no-man’s-land straddling the front, part of a #robotic legion that has stymied #Russia’s territorial ambitions so far this year.
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In April, Ukraine’s President #Volodymyr_Zelenskyy signed an order for the government to procure 50,000 UGVs for #Ukraine’s military forces by the end of 2026. That’s more than three times as many as the government purchased in 2025 and a massive increase from the 2,000 procured in 2024, according to defense analyst Marc C. Lange.
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