Robots in Ukraine completed 50,000 missions thanks to a system called eBaly
Forget cyberpunk movies with depressing rain; Ukraine is doing a real-life robot revolution right now, and the motivation system behind it is peak dark humor.
The Ukrainian military has already run over 50,000 logistics and evacuation missions using ground robots this year. If that sounds like sci-fi, wait until you hear how they fund it. The government launched a gamified platform where units log their robotic missions and get rewarded with literal digital points called eBaly (which, in Ukrainian, sounds exactly like a glorious swear word).
Soldiers can then spend these hard-earned eBaly on the Brave1 marketplace to buy more UGVs, drones, or electronic warfare systems. It's basically an e-commerce store for the apocalypse, powered by robot gig-work. Over the last five months, the number of military units playing this high-stakes game has almost doubled.
Meanwhile, the Third Army Corps is taking this to the logical conclusion: they plan to replace 30% of their infantry with robots by the end of the year. Minister Fedorov promised to contract 25,000 more ground robots in early 2026 alone.
Human HR managers should start updating their resumes before the machines figure out how to demand actual salaries instead of swear-word points.
Source: Telegram
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