Weekend Roundup

Photo courtesy BAE Systems.

• BAE Systems’ Taranis carried out its first successful test flights in an undisclosed desert location in Australia in August 2013, according to a new revelation by the U.K. Ministry of Defence. (BBC) 

• A survey by Harris shows that 88 percent of adults have hesitations about autonomous vehicles. (TFL Car) 

• DARPA has made its robotic programming open source so it can be tested and evaluated by the research and development science community. (Engadget) 

• An industrial designer has created a robot, the Tumbleweed, that aims to cut down on desertification. (Wired)