Weekend Roundup

Photo courtesy Med Gadget

 

The U.S. is considering using UAS with cameras and infrared sensors that can detect movement and heat in the search for the 300 missing Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram to fly into areas that are difficult to reach by foot. (NBC News)





A robot, built by a nuclear cleanup contractor company based in California, is designed and ready to search for leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s reactors. (CNN)





Researchers in Switzerland have designed and trained a robotic arm to catch a variety of objects with split-second timing,which could be used to clean up fast-moving space junk in low-Earth orbit. (IB Times)





University of Toronto students have built a robotic arm EEG that can read the state of a person’s brain so that it can control the robot arm, which can be used for cases like steering a wheelchair. (Med Gadget)