Ukraine has vowed to build an army of robots to help crush Putin‘s forces, including self-driving vehicles, AI-powered machine guns and the next generation of air-defence sensors.
Kyiv‘s youngest government minister Mykhailo Fedorov has overseen dozens of Soviet-legacy laws being scrapped to encourage the creation of the next generation of weapons for Ukraine’s armed struggle against Russia, The Sunday Telegraph reports
More than 200 companies from Ukraine are involved in the effort, helped by state procurement rules being lightened and the establishment of a free-market.
Fedorov’s mission has been compared with America’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, a U.S. government agency created in 1958 to facilitate research in technology with potential military applications, best known for an early network of time-sharing computers that formed the basis of the Internet.
‘You know war starts with one level of technology and ends with a totally different level of technology,’ Fedorov told the…