Unmanned Ground Vehicles
Unmanned ground vehicles for logistics, reconnaissance and support — tracked, wheeled and increasingly autonomous.
Ground drones for the MENA region: Milrem Robotics and Pearson Engineering form UGV partnership
Mine clearance meets combat robots: at IDEX 2025, Milrem Robotics and Pearson Engineering signed a memorandum of understanding. The focus is on ground drones for end users in the Middle East and on integrating the RCV-Pioneer mission payload.
UGV Havoc: Milrem Robotics unveils new 8×8 combat vehicle at IDEX for the first time
A robotic combat vehicle in 8×8 format: with the Havoc, Milrem Robotics is presenting a new UGV at IDEX 2025. The focus is on a hybrid-electric drive, a base payload of five tonnes and subsystems that the Havoc shares with other Milrem platforms.
Autonomous defence systems: ARX Robotics opens Europe's largest production facility
With a new plant, ARX Robotics aims to raise series production of unmanned systems in Europe to an industrial level. The company also reports the delivery of a large UGV fleet to Ukraine – a further step for autonomous defence systems.
Ground drones: Ukrainian Armed Forces open first school for UGV operators
Around ten UGV types, dedicated software tools and training models: with support from Victory Drones, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are now training operators for ground drones in a targeted way. The first future operators are said to be in training already.
Ground drone Atlas CCV: BAE Systems Australia unveils autonomous 8×8 vehicle
Keeping soldiers out of the danger zone and complementing crewed infantry fighting vehicles and tanks at lower cost: with this ground drone, BAE Systems Australia is betting on autonomy off-road as well as on the road.
Ground drone for the US Army: American Rheinmetall Vehicles wins award in S-MET programme
Eight prototypes in 2025, followed by comparative tests against a competing system: this is how things proceed for the ground drone from American Rheinmetall Vehicles and Textron Systems in the US Army's S-MET programme.
Quantum Systems and ARX Robotics found the UXS Alliance
With the UXS Alliance, Quantum Systems and ARX Robotics want to bring together companies working on unmanned systems in all domains. It will be based in Berlin, centred on a software framework that connects systems regardless of manufacturer.
Ground drones in the National Guard: Iowa deploys GDLS S-MET at XCTC exercise in Camp Ripley
The eight-wheeled S-MET robotic mule from General Dynamics Land Systems carries up to 1,134 kilograms and is meant to lighten the infantry's load. Iowa's National Guard has now used the ground drones in an exercise in Minnesota.
UGV Ziesel wins the “Mule” scenario: Diehl Defence takes first place at ELROB
Autonomously retracing a learned route without GNSS and through dense vegetation: at the European Land Robot Trial in Trier, the UGV Ziesel from Diehl Defence won the “Mule” scenario. It is controlled by the Platon autonomy kit.
Ground drones in Ukraine: from the Shablia turret to logistics UGVs for casualty evacuation
In Ukraine, the state and the military fully back the development of military ground drones. An overview of Brave1, the remotely controlled “Sabre” turret, THeMIS from Milrem Robotics and the variety of Ukrainian UGV platforms.
Ground drone S-1 BUG: Unmanned Solutions presents demonstrator from Nové Mesto nad Váhom
A Slovak manufacturer 120 kilometres north-east of Vienna and its partners present a ground drone for combat units that transports equipment, conducts camera reconnaissance and can evacuate casualties.
Unmanned ground vehicles in Russia: a fresh attempt after the failure of Uran-9, Nerekhta and Soratnik
The integration of “ground combat robotic complexes” into Russia's forces has failed. Under sanctions, Russia is now turning to new unmanned ground vehicles such as the Kurier – mostly from private initiatives and with Chinese components.
Themis UGV with Starlink: Milrem Robotics and AEC Skyline enable control over thousands of kilometres
At Eurosatory in Paris in mid-June, Milrem Robotics and AEC Skyline showed how the Themis UGV can be controlled beyond line of sight via Starlink SATCOM. The first platform is the Themis Cargo CASEVAC.