Brits developing robot tanks?

 Telegraph:

Just outside of Dorchester, Dorset, the future of warfare is being tested.

Last month, the Army began trialling self-driving tanks at its Armoured Trials and Development Unit in Bovington, an army base that also hosts Britain's tank museum.

The autonomous, heavily armoured vehicles that have been roaming the landscape are seen as the future of the battlefield, acting as outriders and scouts for the infantry.

The benefits are obvious: sending troops into a town filled with booby traps and snipers is a risk, but sending in a five-tonne tank that drives itself is much safer.

As with the race to develop a self-driving car, there are plenty of companies seeking to be the first to put an autonomous tank on the battlefield.

Elbit Systems UK, part of the Israeli defence business of the same name, is among them.

Better known for its Watchkeeper surveillance drone developed with France’s Thales, Elbit’s Robust self-driving tank – or to give the vehicle its formal classification, a heavy uncrewed ground system (H-UGVs) - was among the vehicles tested by the Army in Dorset.

The six-wheel giant, which runs on tyres rather than treads, looks like a cross between Wall-E and the Batmobile.

“It is designed to conduct missions where you would prefer not to put people in harm's way,” says Martin Fausset, chief executive of Elbit Systems UK.
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There is much more including a photo.  I can see where these could be of some benefit on a short-term basis but question how long they would last against modern anti-tank devices like those used to destroy Russian tanks in Ukraine.