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The testing of a robot at an expo in Kyiv, Ukraine, where Ukrainian drone manufacturers demonstrated their wares to the military on March 27.
PHOTO: BRENDAN HOFFMAN/NYTIMES
Maria Varenikova
KYIV, Ukraine – The robots charged into battle through a valley in eastern Ukraine, driving over grass towards a Russian position. Essentially little green wagons, they looked like something you might buy at a garden store to move bags of soil around. But each carried 30kg of explosives.
As the remotely controlled vehicles approached the enemy soldiers, an aerial drone flew in and dropped a bomb to help clear a path. One of the robots then rushed in and blew itself up, while the others held back, monitoring the position.
