KPI students handed over their own assembled Mamonov's electric stretcher to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The ground drone is designed to evacuate the wounded from the battlefield. It is controlled remotely. Its significant advantage is its cost, as the invention is much cheaper than its analogs.
"One of the tasks at the front is not only to fulfill a combat mission, but also to survive. And to survive, you need to evacuate in time. Evacuating a soldier in time is the first task for me as a commander. And these stretchers will help us a lot in this," said the commander of the 23rd separate battalion of Special Forces, call sign Warsaw.
KPI students collect unique electric stretchers for evacuation of the wounded
After classes and on weekends, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute students create radio-controlled ground stretchers that are used to evacuate wounded soldiers from the battlefield.
Vitaliy Pasichnyk, Vice-Rector for Research, and one of the developers, Ivan Pidpalko, a student of the MMI, visited TSN studio to demonstrate the stretcher, tell how it works, the peculiarities of its assembly, and about the student team.