by AUVSI News 

This week in the unmanned systems and robotics world, a woman in Sydney outsmarts fellow Apple patrons with a telepresence robot, Russia invents a robotic cockroach and GoPro reveals its drone plans. 



According to its website, the Federal Aviation Administration has now approved 1,658 commercial UAS exemptions out of over 4,000 requests. 



Factories in China are transitioning from human to robot work forces. (The Star) 



A woman in Sydney sent a telepresence robot to stand in line for her, waiting for the Apple iPhone 6s release. (ValueWalk) 



GoPro’s CEO confirmed that the company is developing a drone of its own, that will be available in the first half of 2016. (Tech Crunch) 



Olin College of Engineering in Massachusetts has created a robotic baby that is studying the social goals of smiling by infants. (New Scientist) 



Russia’s Baltic Federal Immanuel Kant University announced this week that it has invented a robotic cockroach that can be used as spies. (Newsweek Europe)



Google has hired John Krafcik, formerly a mechanical engineer at Hyundai, Ford, GM and Toyota, to head up its self-driving car business. (IEEE Spectrum) 



South Australia could become the country’s first state to conduct real-world driverless car tests. (Startup Smart) 

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