Weekend Roundup

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Google has created a driverless car with no steering wheel or brake pedals that is controlled entirely by sensors that detect objects as far off as 200 hundred yards in all directions. (Consumerist)



Scientists from International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, a Nepal-based research institute, and Utrecht University in the Netherlands used UAS to map the Lirung glacier in Nepal in 2013. (Circle of Blue)



Sharper Shape, a firm in Finland, is mapping trees with a UAS in an area that is 70 percent woodlands to collect data to determine where to lay power lines. (BBC News) 



Harvard University researchers have created their own set of simple robots that they're trying to teach to mimic termites. (CNN)