Photo: DARPA.

by AUVSI News 

This week in the unmanned systems and robotics world, drones are being used to monitor tree health, one company has hired a robot for a manager and a drunk man took his frustrations out on a robot. 



According to its website, the Federal Aviation Administration has now approved 1,505 commercial UAS exemptions out of over 2,700 requests. 



Uber CEO Travis Kalanick dropped by “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and discussed how driverless cars are inevitable. (Entrepreneur)



A 60-year-old drunk man was arrested in Japan for kicking a Pepper robot. (Popular Science) 



Algoma University and BioForest Technologies Inc. are teaming up to use a drone to monitor the health of trees in Oakville, Ontario. (Inside Halton)



Researchers from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique announced they would develop a NAO robot that could develop a memory and recall those stories later. (Fusion)



Honda Motor Co. Ltd. is the latest automaker to gain a permit to operate autonomous vehicles on public roads in California. (Business Insider)



The maker of a robot that is part of a dance troupe featured on “America’s Got Talent” filed for a Screen Actor’s Guild membership for the machine. (The Huffington Post)



Gill Pratt, the lead behind the DARPA Robotics Challenge, revealed that he has accepted a position at Toyota. (IEEE Spectrum)



Hitachi announced that it has put in place a robotic supervisor to oversee productivity. (iDigital Times) 

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