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April 28, 2026
SHOCKING FOOTAGE! "GRANDMA, SIT DOWN" Watch How a Robot Rescues an Elderly Woman from a War Zone in Ukraine (VIDEO)
Members of the 3rd Army Corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine conducted a specific four-hour rescue operation with a walking robot to extract a 77-year-old woman from the combat zone in the east of the country, Ukrainian and Western media reported.
TL;DR
- A walking robot, 'Cerberus', was used by Ukrainian forces to rescue a 77-year-old woman from a heavily shelled area in the Donetsk region.
- The four-hour operation involved carefully approaching the woman, instructing her to sit on the robot's platform, and navigating through dangerous territory.
- This incident exemplifies Ukraine's increasing integration of unmanned ground systems into military operations, which have performed over 9,000 missions in March 2026.
- Future developments include heavy multicoppters and flat-platform robots for personnel transport in drone-heavy areas, and autonomous robotic machine guns.
- The strategy aims to eventually have robotic systems handle up to 80% of infantry missions to minimize human casualties.
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