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Are these called drones? I thought drones flew.

The article calls this a "Ukrainian unmanned ground vehicle armed with a machine gun" and the headline calls it a "Ukrainian Combat Robot". Not a "drone" like the submitter's title has.

Edit: it seems like the creator calls it a "droid". Is that just them, or is that becoming standard terminology for a kind of ground-based "soldier-robot"? See:

https://devdroid.tech/en/catalog/droid-tw

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The <title> tag is "Ukrainian Drone Holds Position for 6 Weeks". OP probably hit the "fetch title" button or copy-pasted from a chat app embed when submitting.

Drone is just a generic term.

There are more specific terms for specific types of vehicles, and some of those terms have changed over the past few decades.

UGV = unmanned ground vehicle

UAS = unmanned aerial system

UAV = unmanned aerial vehicle

UUV = unmanned underwater vehicle

Etc

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