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Ukraine has deployed over 100,000 ground robot missions, primarily for logistics and casualty evacuation rather than combat. While these systems reduce human exposure to Russian drones, they face significant challenges from terrain, communication disruptions, and the lack of automated loading mechanisms for the dead.
Ukraine is testing a heavy six-rotor multicopter that carries a wounded soldier on a stretcher in an effort to speed evacuation when ground assets are scarce, but experts say it would be vulnerable to FPV drones, weather, and fire and is unlikely to become a standard solution; currently, Ukrainian forces rely on unmanned ground vehicles and logistics platforms for casevac, with no dedicated, universally effective system yet.