Ukraine’s Robots Risk It All to Play Battlefield Uber for Wounded Troops
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- •US Navy veteran Jeffrey Wells volunteers in Ukraine, praising simple, cheap rescue robots for evacuating injured troops under fire.
- •These ground robots cost around $1,000 each and are designed to be expendable due to high likelihood of damage in combat.
- •Despite their imperfections and vulnerability to drone attacks and jamming, Ukraine uses these robots as a last-resort life-saving tool.
In a glorious mix of budget pragmatism and 'hold my beer' tech savvy, Ukraine is deploying low-rent ground robots as battlefield Uber drivers for wounded soldiers. US Navy vet Jeffrey Wells, who’s seen wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but now shuffles robots in Ukraine, says these $1,000 'rolling stretchers' are cheerfully expendable snacks for Russian fighters, unlike their $100,000 tantalizingly fragile big cousins. Despite frequent drone flybys turning these bots into laser-targeted piñatas, the Da Vinci Wolves’ Oleksandr Yabchanka insists they're a last-ditch 'hope in wheels,' because a human rescue might just turn a soldier’s misery from bad to worse. As Western militaries drool over prototypes and doctrine, Kiev’s cobbled-together bots bravely endure jamming, breakage, and bullet kisses — fashionably cheap tech to keep saving lives amidst the buzzing robo-chaos.
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Ukraine’s robots are basically battle-worn shopping carts for the wounded: cheap, often broken, widely ignored—because why pay more when losing 10 $1,000 bots is just Tuesday?
Forget top-shelf drones; Ukraine’s robot medevacs are dollar store relics that Russian troops apparently love shooting at. Who knew expendability was tactical?
Watching Ukraine’s robots try to haul wounded soldiers is like seeing your Roomba get mugged by a raccoon. Adorable and doomed in equal measure.
Source: Businessinsider | Published: 12/28/2025 | Author: Sinéad Baker
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