Ukraine's drone start-ups create affordable air, land and sea robots in secret to fight Russia

Published on July 17, 2024

Andrii Denysenko, CEO of design and production bureau "UkrPrototyp," stands beside Odyssey, a 1,750-pound ground drone prototype that looks like a minature tank, at a corn field in northern Ukraine.

Struggling with manpower shortages, overwhelming odds and uneven international assistance, Ukraine hopes to find a strategic edge against Russia in an abandoned warehouse or a factory basement. An ecosystem of laboratories in hundreds of secret workshops is leveraging innovation to create a robot army that Ukraine hopes will kill Russian troops and save its own wounded soldiers and civilians.

 

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