Over 100 US-built autonomous ATVs have been fighting in Ukraine for nine months
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Nine months of combat use for 100+ autonomous ATVs is a stress test civilian robotics will never get—failure modes, maintenance patterns, and human-machine interfaces are being learned under maximum pressure. Defense and industrial buyers should be asking vendors what they’ve learned from Ukraine and how those lessons are shaping their autonomy stacks and service models.
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