Robotic Complexes

Robotic Complexes is a Ukrainian engineering and design bureau, based in the Ternopil region, that builds unmanned ground vehicles for the war against Russia. It began operations in 2022, drawing on earlier work with agricultural drones, and now groups more than twenty engineers across mechanics, electronics and software. Its best-known platform is the Murakha — Ukrainian for “ant” — a heavy tracked logistics robot capable of hauling around half a tonne of cargo across roughly 40 kilometres of broken terrain and shallow water. A second platform, the Bogomol (“Mantis”), is among the next-generation systems in development.

The Murakha is built for the jobs that expose infantry to the most risk: carrying ammunition forward and bringing wounded soldiers back, under artillery fire and across heavily mined ground. Its multiple control channels are meant to keep it working even where Russian electronic-warfare systems are active. Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence codified the Murakha for combat use in mid-2025 — the step that clears a system for state procurement through the Brave1 defence-technology cluster — and the company says it has since entered full-scale production.

The firm’s line-up extends beyond cargo. A telecommunications variant of the Murakha, the Plyushch (“Ivy”), carries a ten-metre deployable mast for cameras, relays or electronic-warfare modules, and at the 2025 IDEF exhibition in Turkey the company showed the Triminer, a wheeled minelaying drone that seats anti-tank mines inside its wheels for a low centre of gravity. Founder and chief executive Igor Chaykivskyi has said the platforms are “created and improved based on real combat experience.”

In June 2026 the company moved to widen its production base beyond Ukraine. At the NATO-Ukraine Defence Innovators Forum in Vilnius it signed a protocol with the Lithuanian Baltic Institute of Advanced Technology to set up a manufacturing line for ground robotic systems in Lithuania — part of a broader pattern of Ukrainian firms anchoring output on NATO soil to put assembly out of range of Russian strikes. Robotic Complexes sits within a fast-growing field of Ukrainian UGV makers as Kyiv pushes to field tens of thousands of ground robots and pull soldiers back from the most dangerous frontline tasks.