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by AUVSI News 

This week’s latest in the unmanned systems and robotics world this week includes Apple robotic mapping, a satellite capability contract for the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system and successes in neuroprostheses. 



The Federal Aviation Administration approved 58 more commercial UAS operations, bring the total approved to 455 out of over 1300 petitions. The administration also created a blanket authorization for public aircraft operating in the test sites to ease access to the national airspace. (AUVSI)



Scripps Institution of Oceanography has deployed a spray glider that will gather temperature, salinity and ocean current measurements near the Santa Barbara, California, oil spill. (Fox 5 San Diego) 



Nearly 200-year-old laws in the United Kingdom that regulated how to drive farm animals on paved surfaces could delay self-driving car trials now. (Business Insider) 



Apple’s iOS 9 update will include a change to its Maps application that some speculate would include indoor maps of buildings created by robots. (Popular Science)

 

Uber has begun driverless car trials at its Pittsburgh Advanced Technologies Center. (San Francisco Business Times) 



Naval Air Systems Command has awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for $1.8 million to add satellite capability to the MQ-4C Triton. (Satellite Today) 



A joint project between Caltech, Keck Medicine of USC and Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center has used a neuroprosthetic implant to enable a man paralyzed from the neck down control of a robotic arm. (ABC News)



A new U.S. Air Force report on autonomous systems outlines a plan to enable F-35 pilots the ability to control a small fleet of nearby drones from the cockpit. (Military.com)

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