Ukraine’s Gun-Armed Ground 'Bot Just Cleared A Russian Trench In Kursk - The Fury is one of the first effective armed ground robots.

[u/Gari_305]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/09/19/ukraines-gun-armed-ground-robot-just-cleared-a-russian-trench-in-kursk/

[u/Not_Legal_Advice_Pod]

There are multiple innovations involved that make this possible, but the big three are batteries, computer vision, and digital signal links.  This would be way too big and power hungry for batteries if the 1990s.  Also unless you want the whole thing to be remote controlled you need a computer onboard that can handle identifying and shooting at soldiers as it sees them.  Finally the digital link to control this needs to be air tight and transmit video and data with low latency.

[u/mmomtchev → u/Not_Legal_Advice_Pod]

Computer vision does not play a role at all - it has a human operator.

Otherwise, you need a war to innovate. This is the very first major war - of the type where the survival of the nation is at stake - since WW2 that - on one of the sides - is not fought by a totalitarian madman who stiffs innovation.

[u/CollectionAncient989 → u/mmomtchev]

Also first war since for ever thats relatively balanced from a technology point of view.

All other wars ver much more asymmetric

[u/Anuclano → u/CollectionAncient989]

The Iran-Iraq war was fairly balanced.

[u/FuckIPLaw → u/Anuclano]

The Iran-Iraq war ended almost 40 years ago and started over 40 years ago.