From: apnews BY DEREK GATOPOULOS AND ANTON SHTUKA
NORTHERN UKRAINE (AP) — Struggling with manpower shortages, overwhelming oddsand uneven international assistance, Ukrainehopes to find a strategic edge against Russiain 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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