Struggling with labor shortages and unstable international aid, Ukraine is hoping to find a strategic advantage over Russia in abandoned warehouses and basements, a new Associated Press report says. It’s all thanks to a network of secret workshops and labs where Ukrainian engineers are using their skills and new technologies to creating an army of cheap robots to defeat the Russian invasion and rescue wounded soldiers.
Journalists’ sources suggest that we are talking about about 250 defense startups that operate in places that at first glance resemble rural car workshops – old, dilapidated and not dangerous. Meanwhile, employees of one of them, run by entrepreneur Andriy Denisenko UkrPrototyp, can assemble an unmanned ground vehicle called Odyssey in four days, which costs just 10 percent of the price of an imported equivalent.
And the Ukrainian army cannot pass by such an opportunity indifferently; moreover, the creation in May of the fourth type of troops, the Unmanned Systems Forces, shows that it does not even intend to. Government experts are evaluating dozens of new unmanned air, ground and sea vehicles produced by the Ukrainian startup sector, whose production methods differ significantly from those used by large defense industry companies – but the most important thing is the end result.
Source: geekweek.interia.pl
