Polish company Stohid Technology is preparing the Wilk project – an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) built on battlefield experience from the war in Ukraine. The drone weighs about 180 kg, carries up to 200 kg of payload and features a modular architecture. The firm aims to use the platform not only for military missions but also for firefighting, rescue operations and mining.
Headed by former Rosomak CEO Piotr Kisiel, Stohid Technology has completed a technology transfer from Ukrainian partners who already deployed over a hundred similar devices on the front line. The original Ukrainian design relied on widely available components due to wartime constraints. For Wilk, Chinese technology has been eliminated to meet NATO requirements, and instead the company integrates solutions from Polish and American suppliers – optics, advanced electronics, communication systems, batteries and drives.
– On the basis of Ukrainian battlefield experience, we have built a vehicle that will be equipped according to Polish military requirements – said Piotr Kisiel, CEO of Stohid Technology. – There are several development paths here.
From Ukrainian battlefield to NATO standards
General Jarosław Gromadziński, former commander of the Eurocorps and the 18th Mechanised Division, is responsible for strategy and foreign markets. The team is currently building a technological line to move the project into serial production. The global UGV market is already valued at over $3 billion and is expected to double within four years, with Europe accounting for nearly one-third of that.
The company emphasises that demand for unmanned systems is driven not only by geopolitics. Civil and dual-use applications in Europe – including rescue services, fire brigades, infrastructure protection and heavy industry – are already worth several hundred million euros and are growing fastest.
Civilian and dual-use potential
– We have a vision of developing Wilk. On the one hand it can have military use, but on the other there are many civilian possibilities – added Kisiel. The platform could support fire brigades, gas emergency services, mining rescue teams and flood response. In underground mine workings, a low‑profile robot can enter a collapse zone with gas sensors and transport oxygen cylinders or hydraulic tools. During fires in chemical plants, autonomous platforms could carry out reconnaissance and take samples without endangering lives.
Stohid Technology is also developing the Wataha concept – an integrated system of cooperating autonomous land and air drones. In a military setting, multiple Wilk vehicles would form a reconnaissance‑operative swarm, each with its own role, exchanging data in real time. The same approach can be applied to complex civilian operations, such as coordinated firefighting in the chemical industry.
Źródło: WNP.PL, Fot. Stohid Technology / materiały prasowe
