Ukraine's Ground Robots Are Already in the Kill Zone. Sloviansk, Lozova Directions

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]So, here today we have exclusive access to take a look at Robotech, which is one of Ukraine's foremost developers of UGV's, unmanned ground vehicles, also known as killer robots, Skynet, droids, whatever you want to call them. They're all over the front line as we speak, and we're going to have an exclusive look to see how and why they're making these machines and give you guys an understanding of what is the state of UGV's right now in Ukraine.

[00:00:42]So, basically, each robot you see here Yeah. is about 100 lives saved. Like many in Ukraine, Boris Trushkov didn't come into this war from a weapons lab.

[00:00:51]He came from the world of code, AI, and startups. [music] Here you can see a variety of UGV's.

[00:00:58]Basically, there is a demanding machines, there is a logistical machines, evacuation machines, they have fire fighting robots. There's new types of robots we do which are going to carry the weapons, like grenade automate or Browning.

[00:01:12]Some robots you will never expect, but they basically steal things from the battlefield. Steal things? Steal things.

[00:01:20]Reality that we also evacuate the dead people because we also need our >> the bodies.

[00:01:25]>> Yes.

[00:01:33]So, everything that you guys make is made in Ukraine. Yeah, so this is totally built from scratch.

[00:01:44]How many people are you employing currently? So, you can count that overall, with everyone who is helping us, it's about 100 people. And the main profession here seems to be welders.

[00:01:57]Yeah, and you can understand why we do some things manually. You check out how well done the welding is. Yeah. So, this is just weld that I see.

[00:02:06]People who who love welding, they're going to go on the comment section. They're going to have They're going to give their opinion. So, what do you think?

[00:02:13]>> Better than the Lamborghini.

[00:02:29]You can assemble 30 of these guys Yeah. per day.

[00:02:34]per day.

[00:02:35]Logistic is nightmare big, but we we are distributed in lots of places.

[00:02:40]You might ask, "How do these companies manage?"

[00:02:43]Well, they had to be creative. The Russian threat will always [music] exist, but by splitting production across the country, it minimizes the risk of a total production shutdown.

[00:02:55]>> [music] >> Is this is a steel? Yeah, we call it adamantium, but yeah. Adamantium?

[00:03:05]Our main difference from any other UGV in the world, that this machine is the most survivable. [laughter] So, we are not disposable that much. We only affected by heat type of cumulative in Ukraine, which actually affecting the tank. The rest usually has no harm.

[00:03:38]And here to help us understand a bit more, we brought in a UGV expert. And yeah, we have those now. My name is Igor. I am head of UGV departments in Brave1. My key responsibility is to grow new UGV companies in Ukraine and connect them to the battlefield.

[00:03:57]Their products is highly needed on front. Basically, they're like top 10 UGVs in Ukraine right now. It's easy to use.

[00:04:06]It's highly productive.

[00:04:08]And very strong team. They always on the connection with the battlefield.

[00:04:14]They know what they need to fix.

[00:04:17]And they are doing it.

[00:04:22]Wow.

[00:04:23]Good? Yeah. We are company which serving kill zone.

[00:04:28]So, there is a new type of warfare.

[00:04:31]New parameter, new like determine kill zone that anything can work. Yeah.

[00:04:36]People, tanks, armored vehicles, pickups, it doesn't matter. No one will be surviving because of the FPV from both sides. It doesn't matter who dominates. They can dominate at the same time.

[00:04:47]So, we are doing solutions for service in kill zone.

[00:04:53]The kill zone is not just the narrow strip between trenches. It is the ever-expanding area where surveillance [music] drones can spot almost anything and FPV drones can hit almost anything.

[00:05:05]I was impressed when I first saw this baby.

[00:05:08]>> [music] >> This is kind of very very large very really big UGV, but it was really fast.

[00:05:17]And for now based on the statistic right now from the battlefield the top robot.

[00:05:26]In this industry, a good relationship with the military will take you a long way.

[00:05:33]That's where Vasyliu comes in.

[00:05:39]Another one of the company's founders.

[00:05:41]With his military background, he makes sure that communications remain tight between the factory and the front line.

[00:05:51]I'm a veteran and many of my brothers in arms are still at the front defending the homeland.

[00:05:58]Because of that, the need was there and we managed to develop this technology to reduce the number of military casualties, completely replacing them with robots.

[00:06:10]Say, to transport 500 kilos of equipment would take up to 10 soldiers.

[00:06:15]Try walking 20 km with 50 kilos on your back. [music] It's incredibly difficult.

[00:06:20]But using only a single system, you can load that same 500 kilos, go, come back, and complete a couple of missions in just one night.

[00:06:30]There's also the risk of losing soldiers. To evacuate one wounded person, you need a medic and you need two more for the stretcher. That's three extra people. So, the risk isn't just one person, it's four. In some bri- brigades, it's [music] uh I think 80% of all logistic operations are made by UGVs.

[00:06:50]Ukrainian tourists right now are protecting [music] our sky from the Shaheds, from FPV drones, mining, demining missions, kamikaze missions.

[00:07:09]So, I mean, what what makes these drones stand out [music] against I guess the you know, their competition?

[00:07:16]We started from something which is proof from mines, bullets, debris.

[00:07:22]And I think is we got in right direction and we created the UGVs which can withstand in kill [music] zone from FPV drones, drive on mines, uh withstand the artillery shots.

[00:07:34]So, this is the first, the most important part. And then secondly, you need to make it right, you know.

[00:07:44]Why [music] that's important to have drones like this in the in the kill zone? Basically we we created it.

[00:07:50]Ukrainians created it. It's not gray zone. Maybe someone who know about the gray zone it's like there is Russian positions, Ukrainian positions. In between [music] we call it gray zone. So kill zone is like much wider.

[00:08:01]It could take in the second position and as our space time it's expanded. And the first of all the UGV comes only because no one can serve in the kill zone.

[00:08:12]Everything is a matter to be killed there.

[00:08:27]So this is the the Browning that you guys add to So this is actually the market.

[00:08:37]It is not real. Uh it's just the Yeah.

[00:08:40]The tube.

[00:08:42]Imagine seeing a robot with this thing attached to it slowly crawling towards you.

[00:08:50]And through the dynamic saying to you give up or you will die.

[00:08:54]>> [ __ ] talk about it.

[00:08:55]>> Have you heard that robots already took prisoners of war?

[00:08:59]>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I heard.

[00:09:04]So you guys are are first and foremost saving human lives by taking the most deadly front line work and delegating it to something made out of steel or as you as you said adamantium.

[00:09:17]Whatever secret material material you guys are building with. It's individuality.

[00:09:21]It's more like avatar rather than the full autonomous robots which are doing something.

[00:09:31]We call this and by the logo of our company we call this Iron Cossacks.

[00:09:35]Basically when you say autonomous, you mean that this robot can make >> [music] >> all missions by itself without operator.

[00:09:44]Right now, it's like a 50% true. UGV and operator, they are working together.

[00:09:50]>> [music] >> So, every time when you need to make some kind of logistic mission, the operator controls it remotely, monitors [music] its action, and makes key key decisions.

[00:10:08]So, if you could show the audience [snorts and laughter] Oh, look, it's us. So, you basically have something like in Mortal Kombat, right?

[00:10:15]>> So, this is, I mean, for a generation of people who grew up playing video games, you could operate that with very little training.

[00:10:23]Here, [music] it's a copycat league, and well, you can't take your enemies to copyright court. That's why Russia is keeping a close eye on Ukraine's progress creating UGVs of its own.

[00:10:35]We see some UGVs from Russia.

[00:10:37]They are disgusting. [music] They can do some missions, but right now, Ukrainian UGVs are better. We have [music] not much people, and we're trying to replace the people on the front with the robots.

[00:10:53]I'm not going to see like this this droid coming to my house in like 10 years and delivering me pizza.

[00:10:59]Mhm, I would not say this is the future, but you know, that the funny part that Agrika actually built this. So, all of the nuances we have, GPS modulus, some some of the autonomous stuff, some of the rockets, they all come from the Agrika here.

[00:11:18]We're entering the era of robots.

[00:11:22]Metal working as efficiently as people without exhausting human resources without costing a soldier's life.

[00:11:32]In Ukraine, the question is no longer whether unmanned ground vehicles belong on the battlefield. They are already there. The real question is, how fast can they be improved?

[00:11:43]How many can be built?

[00:11:46]And how much frontline work can be handed off to these steel machines?