Weekend Roundup

Photo courtesy DJI Innovations

By Priya Potapragada

DJI Phantom quadcopter captures video of flying balls of lava at the Yasur volcano on Tanna Island in Vanuatu near New Guinea. (Huffington Post)



MIT researchers created a robot fish that can perform an escape maneuver with its soft and flexible body almost as fast as a real fish. (Tech Crunch)



A Swedish student created the ERO robot that can scan buildings to determine the best way demolish a building. Using vacuum suction and electrical power, it eats the building. (Discovery News)



University of Colorado students are collaborating with students from around the world to design an unmanned aerial vehicle to help stop the poaching of rhinoceroses for their horns in South Africa. (CU News)



Australia is planning to purchase $2.5 billion dollars worth of unmanned aircraft to patrol the nation’s borders and monitor energy infrastructure. (Times Live)