Roboneers
Ukrainian defence-tech firm making the ShaBlya weapon station and Rys ground robots.
Roboneers, the Lviv-based maker of the ShaBlya weapon station and Rys robots, co-founded the ARX Industries joint venture with Germany's ARX Robotics on 25 June 2026, days before an armed Rys vehicle's unconfirmed combat debut on 13 July.
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Co-founded ARX Industries with ARX Robotics
Autonomous Systems: Land & Sea: ARX and Roboneers build a cross-border robot ventureBackground
Roboneers is a Ukrainian defence-technology company based in Lviv, best known for the ShaBlya remote weapon station and the Rys family of ground-robotic platforms built for front-line use. Its products are designed inside an active war rather than for a peacetime trials programme, which the company treats as its core selling point against Western competitors.
The firm's route to scale runs through partnership rather than in-house expansion: pairing with an established European manufacturer gives its designs a production base outside Ukraine's wartime constraints, while keeping its own design and testing loop close to the front line. That structure lets Roboneers keep iterating on combat feedback while a partner solves the problem of building thousands of units a year.
Roboneers pairs frontline design with scale
On 25 June 2026 Roboneers co-founded ARX Industries with Germany's ARX Robotics at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdansk, a venture built to mass-produce the Rys Pro ground robot at sites in both countries . The pairing sets Roboneers' frontline design experience, built from operating inside a live war, against ARX Robotics' manufacturing scale, a combination the two companies argue neither could offer alone.
Weeks later, on 13 July, an armed Roboneers-designed Rys vehicle was driven ashore on the Kinburn Spit under fire, a debut Western outlets called the first robotic amphibious assault, though Ukrainian units have not confirmed the framing or the robot's fate. For Roboneers the timing matters: its design reached combat just as the joint venture built to scale it was standing up.
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