Weekend Roundup

Photo courtesy NASA.

NASA's Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland teamed with the Kennedy Space Center to plan a way to create a robotic gas station in space. (Space.com)



British officials announced that driverless cars will be tested on roads in three cities in a trial program that starts in January 2015. (TIME)



The Office of Naval Research and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will send out AUVs to predict hurricane weather patterns in the Atlantic Ocean. (Alley Watch)



Researchers working at the BioRobotics Institute in Italy have designed a multiarmed robot, PoseiDrone,to advance the field of soft robotics and to explore tight spaces.(Discovery.com)