by AUVSI News

A roundup of noteworthy news in the unmanned systems and robotics world this week, including a hobby drone detection system, precision drone deliveries in China and a 6-axis 3D printer.



Coral Springs, Florida-based CellAntenna launched a drone detection system to allow business and governments to detect small drones and steer them away. (South Florida Business Journal)



Alibaba, China’s largest online retailer, ran a three-day drone delivery pilot program this week to deliver tea to 450 customers within an hour. (Techcrunch)



Students from Shanghai at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning at Tongji University developed a six-axis 3D spatial printer inspired by spiderwebs that meshes design with fabrication and can create structures in midair. (3DPrint)



An interactive display at Cognitive Technology, an exhibition at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, allows visitors to control a robotic arm with their brain waves through an electroencephalograph cap. (Make)



Two robotic arms on the International Space Station, one from the U.S. and one from Japan, worked in together to install NASA’s Cloud Aerosol Transport System designed to demonstrate a low-cost approach to developing science payloads on the ISS. (Aero News Network)



This week, Good Morning America used a DJI Inspire 1 hobby drone to fly over an active volcano field the size of Manhattan in Iceland for its morning news coverage. (ABC News)



Researchers from the University of Manitoba’s Autonomous Agents Laboratory have developed a humanoid robot that can play hockey and ski. (Cnet)

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