Rise of the Machines: Ukraine greenlights 50 new battlefield robots
While the world is busy debating if AI will write their next corporate email, Ukrainian soldiers are using actual ground robots to dodge artillery and haul ammo. And the robotic army just got a massive upgrade.
The Ministry of Defense has officially certified 50 new types of ground robotic complexes since January. To put that in perspective, they approved 60 during the entire last year. We are talking about rugged, treaded, and wheeled beasts that do the jobs humans definitely shouldn't be doing right now.
Among the new recruits is NEO-1, a custom-built sapper robot designed directly from feedback from the trenches to clear mines without blowing up the operator. Then there is Vepr, a combat-tested evacuation and logistics platform that doesn't care about mud, bullets, or bad weather.
These metal helpers have already completed over 50,000 missions this year, hauling food, ammo, and carrying wounded soldiers out of hot zones. But the absolute best part of this high-tech warfare is how it's managed. Units get literal "e-points" (which in Ukrainian sounds like a glorious swear word) for completing missions, and they can trade these points on the Brave1 Market platform for more robots, jamming gear, or parts.
Ukrainian units have already received 1,028 ground robots worth almost half a billion hryvnias through the specialized DOT-Chain Defence marketplace.
Sci-fi movies promised sleek humanoid terminators, but real-world tactical superiority apparently looks like a low-slung steel cart earning loyalty points to buy better radio antennas.
Source: Ministry of Defense
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