The Droid TW 12.7 armed ground robot from DevDroid.
Courtesy / DEVDROID
By Patrick Tucker
Science & Technology Editor
May 19, 2026 03:42 PM ET
UGVs are beginning to replace infantry on Ukraine’s front lines.
The Droid TW 12.7 armed ground robot from DevDroid.
Courtesy / DEVDROID
By Patrick Tucker
Science & Technology Editor
May 19, 2026 03:42 PM ET

More than four years into Russia’s grinding war in Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces are driving up their use of land robots. Troops who use…

Autonomous ground vehicles and AI drones are transforming the battlefield as Kyiv offsets manpower shortage to break frontline…

Ukrainian defence technology company DevDroid said in a press release that the strike was carried out by soldiers from Ukraine's…

Land drones are increasingly the only means of transporting supplies to the embattled city of Pokrovsk.

Ground robots ran more than 9,000 frontline missions in March, triple November's count, and captured their first Russian position…

The Kyiv Independent’s Kateryna Hodunova speaks with Vasyl Korenovskyi, CEO of RoverTech, a Ukrainian defense technology company…