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Unmanned Ground Vehicle
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DRDO Daksh: India's flagship bomb disposal robot and its wider family
DRDO Daksh, India's flagship bomb disposal robot, has carried the Indian Army's counter-IED workload since December 2011 and now anchors a wider family of remotely operated vehicles from R&DE(E) Pune. The IS 19445:2025 bomb disposal standard, released in December 2025, places that family inside India's first formal benchmark for explosive ordnance disposal hardware.
Read article →Unmanned ground vehicles in India: from bomb-disposal robots to combat UGVs
India's unmanned ground vehicles already clear explosives, scout contaminated ground, and support reconnaissance, yet no combat UGV has entered operational service. The reason lies in how India's military robotics ecosystem divides development across specialised DRDO laboratories, and how each platform moves from field validation toward induction.
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