Direct proof of use
Ratel Robotics lists the Electric stretcher as a ground robotic evacuation stretcher for contact-line evacuation tasks, with a 150 kg listed load, 100 m control radius, and battery-powered movement over hard-surface and off-road routes. That exact-item source establishes the system's intended role in the Ukrainian ground-robotics lineup rather than documenting a named battlefield evacuation incident.
The wider conflict-use record comes from Ratel and independent wartime reporting on the same Ukrainian robotics ecosystem. Ratel's own 2024 article says Ukrainian ground drones had already moved through gray-zone routes, evacuated hundreds of wounded personnel, and delivered tons of cargo, while Business Insider reporting from a Ratel factory in June 2026 describes Ratel UGVs being assembled for tasks including ammunition transport, wounded evacuation, mine-laying, FPV-drone launch, and attacks on Russian positions.
Sources: Electric Stretcher Product Page, Ratel Ground Drones Experience, Business Insider Ratel Factory Report
Timeline
Ratel Robotics framed ground robots as a practical wartime logistics and medical-evacuation tool in February 2024, describing front-line cases in which Ratel platforms carried supplies and evacuated wounded personnel. By June 2025, Ratel had published an official video demo of the Electric stretcher, showing the named system as a powered casualty-evacuation aid.
Public procurement data in May 2025 also shows a Ukrainian military medical clinical center tender that named Electric stretchers RATEL or equivalent equipment alongside an evacuation UGV requirement, although the tender page marks that procurement as unsuccessful. By June 2026, Business Insider's factory reporting described a larger Ratel production push in which robots were moving from assembly and training into battlefield logistics and casualty-evacuation roles.
Sources: Ratel Ground Drones Experience, Electric Stretcher Demo Video, OpenDataBot Evacuation Tender, Business Insider Ratel Factory Report
Narrative
The Electric stretcher belongs to Ukraine's wartime shift toward unmanned ground logistics and casualty evacuation. Its public product page describes a compact powered stretcher package rather than a full robotic ambulance: the listed equipment includes the stretcher, charging station, passport, user manual, and accessories, and the stated function is to move a casualty load from the contact line.
The source base supports a conservative reading of its conflict role. Ratel-family platforms are documented in front-line logistics and wounded-evacuation use, and Ratel lists the Electric stretcher as the exact evacuation stretcher item inside that product family. Public sources available for this record do not identify a dated unit-level evacuation carried out by this exact Electric stretcher model.
Sources: Electric Stretcher Product Page, Business Insider Ratel Factory Report, Ratel Ground Drones Experience
