Up to 12 British companies will receive controlled access to Ukraine’s Avengers Labs battlefield dataset to train and test artificial-intelligence models for unmanned systems.
The dataset contains imagery and video collected by Ukrainian UAS using daylight and thermal sensors, together with sensor information derived from more than six million detections of objects including tanks, artillery, air-defence systems, infantry and aerial targets.
Development areas include autonomous target recognition, distributed decision-making, adaptive mission execution and collaborative sensing. The programme directly converts operational ISR and combat data from the war in Ukraine into training material for future autonomous military systems.
Source: UK Ministry of Defence; Ukrainian Ministry of Defence / Avengers Labs.