Weekend Roundup

Photo courtesy Carnegie Mellon News

 

Undercover robot boats designed as crocodiles by Carnegie Mellon researchers  are measuring the amount of hippopotamus dung in Kenya’s Mara river and checking the quality of the water. The hippopotamous droppings are settling to the bottom of the river which researchers believe is responsible for bacteria forming that is taking away oxygen from fish. (Carnegie Mellon News)





The U.S. Department of Defense made the decision to send an additional UAS and 80 Air Force troops to Chad to search for the 200 missing schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in neighboring Nigeria.(Defense.gov)



A robotic arm helped a radiation oncologist at the CyberKnife center of Miami to deliver radiation beams directly to a patient’s cancerous tumors. (Miami Herald)



Unmanned aerial systems may be used to fight invasive weeds in Western Australia as more people are getting licenses to own UAS. (ABC)





Amazon plans to expand use of Kiva Systems robot use at its warehouses by rolling out 10,000 by the end of 2014. Amazon bought Kiva in 2012. (Seattle Times)