The US Army wants to see if it can get robots to rescue wounded troops like they're doing in Ukraine

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Maj. Drew Kang, Fire Support Officer, 2nd Cavalry Regiment
Maj. Drew Kang, Fire Support Officer, 2nd Cavalry Regiment, discussed his unit's work on emerging technologies during a recent event in Washington, DC.

U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tien Dat Ngo

These new Ukrainian ground robots can launch unjammable fiber-optic drones close to the front so troops don't have to

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A black ground robot on six wheels on snow with a drone flying above it under a grey sky
Ratel Robotics said it had adapted one of its ground robot models to carry and launch fiber-optic drones.

Ratel Robotics

Ukrainian soldiers surprised a robot maker by using a drone to drop one of its bots into battle

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A black drone with mutiple rotors in the air above a grassy ground with a blue but cloudy sky
A Ukrainian unit used a drone to bring a ground robot closer to Russia's forces.

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A Russian drone hit a rescue robot evacuating a wounded Ukrainian soldier — the bot shielded him from further injury, battalion says

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The black silhouette of the front of a long robot on a track surrounded by plant life at night time, with a figure standing beside it to flag it down
Ukraine is using ground robots to evacuate the wounded, and some have cages or armor to protect the soldiers.

1st Separate Medical Battalion

Robots are evacuating soldiers in Ukraine. A US veteran said they're best when they're cheap.

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A man in camouflage gear stands watching a robot with a man lying on top pulling another man along the ground in a field
Robots have started evacuating some wounded soldiers in Ukraine, and the West is watching the technology.

AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko

Ukraine just approved its first ground robot equipped with key grenade launchers, maker says

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A robot on tracks driving down a muddy track with a grenade launcher on top
DevDroid said its Droid NW 40 adapted for the Mk-19 and AGL-53 40mm automatic grenade launchers has been codified by Ukraine's defense ministry.

DevDroid

Ground drones are being used in at least 8 ways in Ukraine. A robotics operator thinks one is the most promising.

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A small wheeled robot fitted with a grenade launcher rolls on a dirt ground with a grey sky and a man behind it
Ukraine is using ground robots for a variety of uses, including firing RPG-7 grenade launchers as pictured and blowing up Russian positions.

Stringer/REUTERS

Operators say Ukraine's ground robots are great combat tools — just not for scouting in the grass

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Two ground robots with tracks on brown ground with a drone in the sky above them
Ground robotic platforms are helping Ukraine attack and gather intel on Russia.

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Ukraine's ground drones work like Lego, with soldiers putting parts together to perform different missions

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A man in camouflage gear stands looking at a large wheeled robot with a machine gun on top in front of a large mound of brown earth
 

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