Rys Pro
Modular Ukrainian-German uncrewed ground vehicle for evacuation, resupply, mine-laying and combat.
Rys Pro became the production platform for ARX Industries, the Ukrainian-German venture founded on 25 June 2026, days before an armed Rys-family vehicle carried out an unconfirmed combat debut on the Kinburn Spit on 13 July.
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Selected as the venture's production platform
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Rys Pro is a modular uncrewed ground vehicle designed for casualty evacuation, resupply, mine-laying, demining and direct combat roles, letting a single chassis swap a stretcher rack for a weapons mount or a mine-dispensing rig depending on the mission.
The vehicle enters a Ukrainian ground-robotics market large enough to need formal type approval rather than ad hoc procurement, with the Ministry of Defence codifying new ground-robotic-complex models at a much faster pace in 2026 than the year before. That scale of demand is what makes standardising on one chassis, rather than building bespoke robots to order, worth doing.
ARX Industries, the Ukrainian-German venture that selected Rys Pro as its production platform, plans manufacturing sites in both countries , a structure meant to keep the design close to frontline feedback while giving it European industrial scale.
Rys Pro becomes ARX's production platform
ARX Industries, the joint venture ARX Robotics and Roboneers founded in Gdansk on 25 June 2026, selected Rys Pro as its production platform, with output planned across sites in both Germany and Ukraine . Stated year-one capacity runs to several thousand vehicles, scaling toward tens of thousands, though the venture has been explicit that these are planned figures rather than signed orders.
Days later, on 13 July, a Rys-family vehicle armed with a 7.62mm machine gun and an AI-assisted ballistic computer was landed under fire on the Russian-held Kinburn Spit, a debut Western defence outlets called the first robotic amphibious assault. It is not established that the vehicle was the Rys Pro production variant rather than an earlier Rys model, and the robot's fate afterwards remains unconfirmed.
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