Weekend Roundup

Photo courtesy CBS Detroit

Detroit’s Wayne County Homeland Security Department demonstrated its T5 Robotic Rover, a remotely controlled UGV, that will be used as a first responder in areas that are risky to  work in. (CBSDetroit)





The University of Michigan announced that its driverless car obstacle course will open in the fall. It will serve as a testing round for driverless vehicles and is designed with 32 acres of streets, highways and common obstacles. (NBC)





MIT researchers have created an extra set of shoulder-mounted robot arms that have the ability to study and the learn the way a person’s body moves and then predict how the person wants the arms to help. (Gizmodo)





Tokyo Electric Power Co. announced that a robot that was sent into the Unit 1 of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power station, has been able to find the source of the leaks. The plant operator was not able to determine how water dumped on the units for cooling kept leaking until now.(West Hawaii Today)