The New Shepard crew capsule separates from the propulsion module and continues its ascent to 307,000 feet before returning to Earth for a classic landing under parachutes. Photo: Blue Origin.

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by AUVSI News 

This week’s latest in the unmanned systems and robotics world, includes a private spacecraft launch by a Jeff Bezos’ company, the Pope’s first drone and new insights into Microsoft’s augmented reality, which the company calls augmented reality, in a demonstration at its Build Developer Conference in San Francisco.



The industry is gearing up for the biggest event of the year in AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems conference in Atlanta, which starts next Monday. Follow all the action @AUVSIshow and connect with industry leaders, attendees and exhibitors using #unmanned15.



The Federal Aviation Administration also approved 22 more commercial unmanned aircraft systems exemptions this week, including another exemption for AUVSI member AeroVironment, bring the total number of exemptions to 246 out of over 1000 requests.



Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ hush-hush space company, Blue Origin, launched its New Shepard unmanned spaceship for its first test flight this week. The company aims to send people on suborbital trips. (U.S. News and World Report)



Researchers at the University of Texas Austin developed a two-arm robotic rehabilitation exoskeleton to provide quality, data-driven therapy to patients suffering from stroke or neurological injuries. (Phys.org)



The Sprite drone from startup Ascent AeroSystems, which launched on Kickstarter this week, promises to be a portable solution for situational awareness for hikers, campers and mountain climbers. (Popular Mechanics)



This week at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in Beijing, the Yangyang Intelligent Robot Science Service Centre debuted a robot that looks strikingly similar to a woman. (Mirror) 



Microsoft showed off its HoloLens holographic platform by displaying it over a robot in a mixed reality demonstration. (The Verge)



On Thursday, a group of students from a Rome Jesuit school presented Pope Francis with his own drone. (The Washington Post)



The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence has created a robotic chimpanzee that could one day walk on the moon. (CNN)

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