The American publication AP reports this.
"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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Defense startups across Ukraine — about 250 according to industry estimates — are creating these killing machines at secret locations that typically look like rural car repair shops," the article states.
An example is the UkrPrototyp startup by entrepreneur Andrii Denysenko.
The article emphasizes that employees at a startup led by entrepreneur Andrii Denysenko can assemble an unmanned ground vehicle called the Odyssey in just four days. Its most notable feature is the price tag: $35,000, or roughly 10% of the cost of an imported model.
"We are fighting a huge country, and they don’t have any resource limits. We understand that we cannot spend a lot of human lives," said Denysenko, who heads the defense startup UkrPrototyp. "War is mathematics."
According to Denysenko, the Odyssey created by the startup acts as a platform for rescue and supply but can be modified to mount a remote-controlled heavy machine gun or suspended charges for demining.
"Squads of robots … will become logistics devices, tow trucks, minelayers and deminers, as well as self-destructive robots," a government fundraising page said after the launch of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces. "The first robots are already proving their effectiveness on the battlefield." "There will be more of them soon. Many more."
Denysenko’s company is working on projects including a motorized exoskeleton that would boost a soldier’s strength and carrier vehicles to transport a soldier’s equipment and even help them up an incline. "We will do everything to make unmanned technologies develop even faster. (russia’s) murderers use their soldiers as cannon fodder, while we lose our best people," Mykhailo Fedorov, the deputy prime minister for digital transformation, wrote in an online post.
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