UNEX UGV passes major test towing a 3.2 tonne howitzer
An unmanned robot the size of a small truck just proved it can drag an artillery piece across a battlefield while hauling more than a ton of extra cargo at the same time, a feat that could let front-line units cut the number of vehicles and soldiers needed for a single resupply run. ABRIS DG [β¦]
A robot small enough to throw through a window and tough enough to survive a five-story fall onto concrete is headed to Tunisiaβs military, part of a U.S. arms sale that will let North African soldiers see around dangerous corners before anyone has to walk into them. The U.S. Armyβs Contracting Command at Aberdeen Proving [β¦]
Ukrainian forces have carried out what the military describes as the worldβs first known combat mission combining a naval drone with an armed ground robot, using an unmanned surface vessel to ferry a machine-gun-equipped robotic vehicle across the Black Sea and land it directly on Russian-occupied shoreline, United24 Media reported July 13, citing Ukraineβs 123rd [β¦]
Ukrainian ground robots ran more than 16,600 supply and evacuation missions in June, the highest monthly total since the Defense Ministry began tracking the numbers in January, and the pace shows no sign of slowing as Kyiv pushes to get soldiers off the most exposed roads to the front. Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said the [β¦]
Vigilant Solution, the robotics division of the French small business MP-SEC, announced that its team took part in a new round of trials last week for Pendragon, a French military program working to build the countryβs first Robotic Combat Unit, known in French as the UnitΓ© Robotique de Combat, or URC. The French Army launched [β¦]
A Ukrainian company that builds robots to carry wounded soldiers off the battlefield just landed more than β¬500,000 ($571,600)Β in fresh funding from Swedish investors, money the company says will help it nearly double how many combat robots it can build every month. Trinity Robotics announced the strategic investment round on July 7, 2026, backed by [β¦]
Picture a robot you could carry up a flight of stairs, remotely towing a military truck that outweighs a fully loaded school bus, and doing it without breaking a wheel. That is the scene an American robotics company says it captured on video from a recent U.S. Army demonstration, and if the footage holds up, [β¦]
A Ukrainian robotics company released video footage of its heavy unmanned ground vehicle crossing a plowed field at speed, visual proof that a machine built to haul two tons of ammunition, food, or wounded soldiers can actually handle the kind of broken, rough terrain that would stop a human-driven truck cold. Ukrainian developer VATAG posted [β¦]
A South Korean Marine unit sent a robot on four legs walking point ahead of its own troops during a live combat exercise last week, a small but telling sign of how the countryβs military is trying to solve a problem that has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with demographics. The [β¦]
A small tracked robot that can launch its own quadcopter, watch a target from the air, and then land the drone right back on its own chassis has surfaced in a newly published Russian patent, a design open-source trackers have nicknamed the βtracked Mavicβ after the popular DJI consumer drone it resembles in miniature. The [β¦]