With UAVs being common throughout the world, why aren’t there many unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) being used for military applications yet?
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Just like it has taken drones 50 years from their early military iterations during the vietnam war up to modern armed drones and down to quadrotor drones used in large numbers today.
UGV’ are still in its early stage, they are slow and cumbersome and right now they only work in support roles such as bomb defusal and mine sweeping.
The few combat trials with UGV’s, such as the Russian Ural-9 have been rather bad.
There are however many designs being worked on and companies such as Boston dynamics are quickly making robots more commercially available, which also opens up for military use.
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