A US Navy special operations veteran told BI that ground robots are helpful, but it's best to have more cheap one than fewer expensive ones.

In this kind of combat, it’s harder to get wounded troops off the battlefield. Without air superiority, flying a Black Hawk into medevac an injured soldier to care at a field hospital simply isn’t possible without putting even more troops at risk.

That’s why an increasing number of Western militaries are turning to robots for these missions.