by AUVSI News 

This week in the unmanned systems and robotics world, a former GM manager says the company will have driverless cars in 2018, Pepper the robot makes its European debut and a robot out of China is a shapeshifter. 



According to its website, the Federal Aviation Administration has now approved 1,937 commercial UAS exemptions out of about 4,000 requests. 



A man marked Back to the Future day by having a drone walk his dog, based on a scene that occurs in “Back to the Future Part II.” (The Telegraph)



Robots originally created for space exploration by NASA Mes are now being repurposed for air duct cleaning (IEEE Spectrum)



Larry Burns, the former vice president for research and development at General Motors, estimates that driverless cars could be ready by the company by 2018. (The Christian Science Monitor)



Softbank’s Pepper robot, which sold out in one minute during its Japan debut, has made its way to France, where it is stationed in a Carrefour market. (Ubergizmo)



A modularly designed robot can morph itself into 100 different shapes. (Venture Beat)



A robot out of Toyohashi University can tell if people in its presence are distracted, and it then pesters them to get their attention. (Popular Mechanics)



The Row-bot, developed at Bristol Robotics Laboratory, uses microbes as fuel so they can swim around in dirty water for a very long time. (IEEE Spectrum)

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