Weekend Roundup

Photo courtesy Titan Aerospace.

By Priya Potapragada



Facebook is planning to buy Titan Aerospace, a company that makes solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicles that can stay in the sky up to five years, so that they can build 11,000 UAVs to bring Internet service to Africa. (Beta Beat)





The University of Maryland’s Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory is developing unmanned vehicle systems using insects as models to change the way the government responds to natural disasters. (Emergency Management)





Ma Yongsheng, CEO of Aviation Industry Corporation of China, is testing a parafoil smog-clearing unmanned vehicle system, as Chinese policymakers are trying to cut down pollution. (Business Insider)





A team of researchers from MIT and the University of Maryland have created the RoboClam that serves as a digging resource for low-energy anchors or as an environmentally safe way to lay down more intercontinental, undersea fiber-optic cables. (Los Angeles Times)