// Remote Demining Robot
Zmiy
- Manufacturer
- Rovertech
- Status
- Fielded
Key specifications
- Clears up to 2.5 hectares a day (2024 government test)
- 1.35 m working tool; weighs over a tonne
- Speed 8 km/h; range 20 km (company figures)
Zmiy / Rovertech
Overview
Rovertech builds the Zmiy (“dragon”) family of armoured ground robots. The original Zmiy is a remote-controlled mine flail of about a tonne that detonates anti-personnel and anti-tank mines. Ukraine’s mine-action portal reported in September 2024 that it had passed tests and received a certificate of conformity, clearing up to 2.5 hectares a day, and the Kyiv Post later called it the first mine-clearing robot fielded in the war. The same chassis now also serves as a logistics and evacuation robot and, with partner modules, as a strike platform. The company says it delivered more than 600 robots in 2025 and has fielded about 800 in total. It is privately funded, mostly with the founders’ own money.
Sources
- Demine Ukraine, 11 Sep 2024
- Kyiv Post, 17 Oct 2025
- IEEE Spectrum, 10 Jul 2026
- Rovertech, 24 Mar 2026
- Rovertech, 17 Nov 2025
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