Defence & dual-use
The front line is going unmanned.
In August 2026, Ukraine's ground robots ran more than 25,000 logistics and evacuation missions in a single month, 3.3 times the January figure. Ministry of Defence of Ukraine, 7 Sep 2026
The machines that carry supplies and pull out the wounded are now robots. The software that coordinates them decides whether they arrive.
What changed
- Scale. By July 2026, Ukraine's procurement agency had contracted over 22,000 unmanned ground vehicles for the year, nearly double the total for all of 2025. Defence Procurement Agency DOT, via zbroya.gov.ua
- Goal. Ukraine's defence minister set the target publicly: "100% of frontline logistics should be performed by robotic systems." Defense News, April 2026
- Jamming. Electronic warfare severs the radio link between a drone and its operator, or feeds it false GPS. What keeps working is what can carry on when the link drops. RBC-Ukraine, July 2026
- Autonomy is partial. Real progress is in partial autonomy, and human oversight remains critical in engagement decisions. CSIS, March 2025
What we build
Software, not weapons. Our work is the layer between the operator and a mixed fleet of robots and sensors.
- Autonomy that survives jamming (roadmap). Onboard behaviour that keeps a unit safe and on task when its link degrades, and hands control back when the link returns.
- Command and control (early access). One operator view across robots and sensors, with the topics you choose recorded for after-action review. Built on WiseOS.
- Simulation first. Test a mission against a simulated fleet before a real unit moves. ROS2 MCP already drives Gazebo simulations.
- Resilient comms. ROS 2 over Zenoh for links that come and go, LoRaWAN for long-range low-power sensors.
Human in command. Not negotiable.
The work we take on moves supplies, maps terrain, watches perimeters and brings people home. A human decides every use of force. We do not build target selection, and we do not integrate weapons.
This matches the public standard: the U.S. Department of Defense requires autonomous systems to "allow commanders and operators to exercise appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force." DoD Directive 3000.09
The same rule is in our open-source code: ROS2 MCP has a read-only mode that removes every tool able to move a robot.
Working on dual-use robotics?
We do not name the teams we talk to. Dual-use export rules apply to this work.