Weekend Roundup

Photo courtesy Lora Koenig, NASA Goddard.

By Holly Gonzalez

• NASA’s GROVER robot has completed remote tasks through an Iridium satellite at the highest point in Greenland. (Nanowerk News)

• Large UAS are getting replaced by smaller systems that can perform the same missions. (Aviation Week)

• The U.S. Postal Service could benefit from unmanned systems. (Nextgov)

• A young man put a quadcopter to use for dry cleaning delivery in Philadelphia. (NBC Philadelphia) 

• A real estate agent in Canada now uses a quadrotor to capture aerial images of homes to present to clients. (CBC News)

• Many objects can be turned into quadrotors with the use of the Drone It Yourself kit. (Gizmag)

• University engineering students from Australia and New Zealand are set to build autonomous robots in the in NI Autonomous Robotics Competition. (Whatech)