Weekend Roundup

Photo courtesy NASA

 By Holly Gonzalez

• Team Survey of Los Angeles won $5,000 for completion of Level 1 of NASA’S Sample Return Robot Challenge. (Red Orbit)

• An unmanned aircraft created at Georgia Tech is the size of a small pizza and can assist in traffic management. (11 Alive)

• India is working to create high-intelligence robotic soldiers for border protection. (Hindustan Times)

• Plans to allow pilgrimage travel to the golden temple via fleets of driverless cars are in place in northern India. (The Wall Street Journal India)

• A UAV donated by Perth company CopterCam is being used to locate a missing former Canadian army reservist on Mount Kosciuszko in Australia. (Brisbane Times)

• London’s YO! Sushi is delivering burgers via the iTray UAS. (Time)

• The future of surgery is evolving quickly with aids from robotics. (Wired.co.uk) 

• Zoë, the solar-powered microbial life-mapping robot, will go on a second mission with NASA for astrobiology and use a drill to search for subsurface life. (azorobotics)

• Researchers at Lund University will develop a UAS controlled by mobile phones that will be able to drop off medicine and collect blood samples in Malawi. (azorobotics.com)