Struggling with manpower shortages, overwhelming odds and uneven international assistance, Ukraine hopes to find a strategic edge against Russia in an abandoned warehouse or a factory basement.

An ecosystem of laboratories in hundreds of secret workshops is leveraging innovation to create a robot army that Ukraine hopes will kill Russian troops and save its own wounded soldiers and civilians.

Defense startups across Ukraine — about 250 according to industry estimates — are creating the killing machines at secret locations that typically look like rural car repair shops.

Employees at a startup run by entrepreneur Andrii Denysenko can put together an unmanned ground vehicle called the Odyssey in four days at a shed used by the company. Its most important feature is the price tag: $35,000, or roughly 10% of the cost of an imported model.

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          4 months ago

          For one the dreadnought sarcophagus is pretty much its own computer platform by itself, also do you really trust whatever crackhead internet system still exists in 40k. A virus would quite literally give you aids, porn is capable making you do a refer madness type bs, and there are Tzeenchian memetic hazards about. Combat footage is safe though, its a joint venture between the Administratum and Khorn.