““It’s an inevitable evolution.” The co-founder of DroneUA on the prospect of the fact that mostly robots, not people, will fight December 26, 13:28 Share: Ground robotic complexes are Furious, armed with PKT machine guns (Photo: FEDOROV via Telegram) The co-founder of DroneUA, an expert in the field of unmanned technologies Valery Yakovenko in an interview Radio NV talked about the prospect of robots, not humans, fighting on the front lines. “This is an inevitable evolution that will happen just like that. We have to fight”, — write on: ua.news
Ground-based robotic Rage complexes armed with PKT machine guns (Photo: FEDOROV via Telegram)
In an interview with Radio NV, the co-founder of the DroneUA company, an expert in the field of unmanned technologies, Valery Yakovenko spoke about the prospect of robots, not people, fighting on the front lines.
“This is an inevitable evolution that will happen just like that. We have to fight technologically and we have to value Ukrainian life. And the only way to do this is to entrust the most dangerous work to robots,” Yakovenko said on Radio NV.
The co-founder of DroneUA noted that even before the full-scale invasion of Russia, Ukraine was one of the most developed markets for the use of robotics in various industrial sectors, and in agriculture as a market for robotics there was more than all of Europe.
“We have to use ground-based robotic systems, combine them with the various robotic capabilities that we have, from reconnaissance to defeat. And we have to put all this into a single formula, when a person will be present on the field only in order to control this type of army from a safe shelter. And in the mode of connected networks between drones — in the mode of a swarm of drones, when not only air, but even ground drones are present in the swarm at the same time. All this should happen in order to win back our land,” Yakovenko said.
He also drew attention to the fact that this was determined as a strategic direction in mid-2024 — “when the state emphasized that it needs developers of ground systems.”
“This is the only way to become technologically stronger. Because drones are not a panacea, we need to counter the “meat” assaults of the enemy. We 100% do not want the same practice. Ukraine cannot work according to the principle of “meat” assaults. We simply do not have the people for this. We appreciate them, unlike the occupiers,” the co-founder of DroneUA emphasized.
In July 2024, the Ministry of Defense announced that robots would fight at ground zero instead of people. The department emphasized that innovative projects are currently being developed at an accelerated pace in order to gain a technological advantage on the battlefield, and the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umerov identified this task as a priority.