Weekend Roundup

Photo courtesy NASA/Dmitri Gerondidakis.

NASA is training up a slew of swarming ground robots to mine the moon or Mars. (IEEE Spectrum) 



A Northern California resident decided to put an unmanned spin on the viral ALS Ice Bucket Challenge trend. (Vimeo) 



Google’s lead software designer on its self-driving car concept recently revealed that the vehicles will accelerate past speed limits by up to 10 mph. (BBC) 



The Africa News Innovation Challenge is spearheading the African SkyCAM project, which seeks to use unmanned aircraft for journalism in Kenya. (SciDevNet)