Germany and Ukraine launch joint venture to build 2,000 combat ground robots
Europe's largest ground-robot order is moving. Germany's Quantum Systems and Ukraine's Tencore launched a joint venture, Quantum Tencore Industries, with an opening order for 2,000 TerMIT unmanned ground vehicles for Ukraine's military, funded by Berlin. Delivery is set within 12
Germany is set to become a manufacturing base for combat robots designed and battle-tested in Ukraine. Quantum Systems, a Munich-based maker of unmanned systems, and Tencore, a Ukrainian robotics firm, have launched a joint venture called Quantum Tencore Industries. Its first contract is an order for 2,000 TerMIT unmanned ground vehicles for Ukraine's armed forces, funded by the German Ministry of Defence, with delivery planned over the next 12 months. The TerMIT is a tracked, modular vehicle that shifts between logistics runs, casualty evacuation, engineering work and armed roles through software rather than hardware changes. Tencore developed it in close cooperation with frontline units, and it has been used across thousands of missions in Ukraine since 2023. The venture follows a pattern of pairing Ukrainian combat design with German industrial capacity, after an earlier drone partnership between the same firms. For Ukraine, scaling unmanned ground systems is a way to reduce the exposure of soldiers in dangerous tasks and to offset Russia's advantage in manpower.