Battalions of ground robots — tracked and wheeled machines that deliver supplies, haul ammunition, evacuate the wounded, lay mines and, increasingly, hold land — now conduct thousands of missions every month. That has made them an indispensable tool for Ukrainian infantrymen who spend monthslong rotations in buried bunkers hiding from flying drones.
At the cutting edge, unmanned ground vehicles are doing what once seemed a generation away: assaulting and capturing enemy trenches. In April, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces had captured a Russian-held position using only land and aerial drones, without putting a single soldier on their own side in direct danger.
Ukraine is outrunning the world’s most advanced militaries, including Russia’s, in its development of ground robots. Leading the charge are not the software whizzes behind aerial drones, but welders and grease monkeys whose MacGyvered creations help with the grunt work of infantrymen. [emphasis added]
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