Weekend Roundup

Photo courtesy NASA.

NASA is conducting tests on the remotely controlled ground-based Remote Robotic Oxidizer Transfer that in the future could robotically replenish satellites before they can launch keeping humans at a safe distance. (Phys.org)



Mitsubushi Heavy Industries Ltd. has completed demonstration testing with its MEISTeR remote-controlled robot, which is being used to perform tasks for decontamination and sampling the radioactive material found at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. (The Asahi Shimbun)



A journalist from Hartford, Conn., filed a lawsuit Tuesday against police for what he believed violated his free speech after they questioned his use of a remote-controlled aircraft to record images of a car wreck. (The Nashua Telegraph)



The Washington Nationals are using an unmanned aerial system with a GoPro camera to film the team’s practices for promotions and marketing purposes. (NBC Sports