Weekend Roundup

Photo courtesy IAI.

 By Holly Gonzalez

• Driverless cars are set to hit the roads before the end of this year in the United Kingdom. (Nigerian Tribune)

• The Russian military wants to buy UAS from the United Arab Emirates. (Defense Update)

• A breakdown of funding distribution for the United Kingdom’s Technology Drive. (The Business of Robotics)

• Massachusetts’ Winchester High School’s Botball team placed first in the robotic achievement test at the Global Conference of Educational Robotics. (Wicked Local Winchester)

• A German farmer is set to use satellite guided driverless tractors. (Global Post)

• Two universities in Edinburgh, U.K., gained funds to continue research in robotics and autonomous systems. (Electronics Weekly)

• The Heron 1 UAS completed 15,000 flight hours in military operations. (Ottawa Citizen)

• AUVSI’s Gretchen West spoke at the Small Unmanned Systems Business Expo where Alta Devices emphasized the use of their solar powered products to allow UAS to operate for extended periods of time. (Hispanic Business)

• An engineer is start his own UAS company to study vegetation on Arctic ice. (The Hindu)

• The U.S. Army predicts the use of human-robot cooperation to assist soldiers and military activity. (Computer World)