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Kyiv Start-Up Tests Unified Controller for Robots and Drones

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Start-up Ark Robotics is developing an intelligent operating system to enable a single controller to remotely operate swarms of interconnected drones and cannon-equipped land robots.

The tech, they say, could help Ukraine cope with Russia ’s numerical advantage.

Since the war began, a vibrant defense tech innovation ecosystem has emerged in Ukraine , having started from modest beginnings of modifying China -made DJI MAVIC drones.

Ark Robotics’s partner brigade in the Ukraine armed forces to test the early version of the tech in a real-life situation within the next couple of months .

The new class of multi-drone operators will likely be recruited from the ranks of gaming aficionados.

“If we can take the best pilots and give them tools to combine the operations, we might see a tremendous advantage,” Udovychenko says.

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