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News from 12/3/12 to 12/7/12

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News from 12/3/12 to 12/7/12

		Weekend Roundup By Danielle Lucey 07 December 2012 A roundup of all the noteworthy news in the unmanned systems and robotics world this week, including an unmanned Black Hawk and a space-bound humanoid robot. ...

InTouch Health Appealing Patent Lawsuit Decision By Danielle Lucey 07 December 2012 InTouch Health plans to appeal a patent infringement decision in its lawsuit against VGo Communications Inc., over the company's rival telepresence robot. ...

		First Production Centaur OPV Flies to Switzerland By Brett Davis 06 December 2012 Aurora Flight Sciences says it has delivered the world’s first production optionally piloted vehicle, Centaur, to Switzerland’s department of defense. ...
Photo courtesy Armasuisse.

		USAF: Current Unmanned Aircraft Irrelevant in the Pacific By Danielle Lucey 06 December 2012 Flightglobal reports that a top service official from the U.S. Air Force believes unmanned aircraft are “not relevant” in the Pacific theater. ...
Photo courtesy Senior Airman Julianne Showalter/U.S. Air Force.

		Swimming Robot Reaches Australia After Record-Breaking Trip By Danielle Lucey 05 December 2012 Liquid Robotics has broken a maritime endurance record. The company’s Papa Mau Wave Glider has completed its 9,000-nautical-mile trip from San Francisco to Australia. ...
Photo courtesy Liquid Robotics.

		NASA Announces New Robotic Rover for Mars By Brett Davis 05 December 2012 NASA has now announced that its rover Curiosity will get some robotic company on the red planet starting in 2020. ...
Illustration courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.

		Curiosity Whets Scientific Appetite With Martian Soil Scoops By Brett Davis 03 December 2012 NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has found water, sulfur and chlorine-containing substances in soil samples that its arm scooped into an internal laboratory. ...
Photo courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

		AeroVironment, CybAero Team for VTOL Work By Brett Davis 03 December 2012 AeroVironment will invest up to $3 million in Sweden’s CybAero and develop and distribute a Tier II vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aircraft. ...
Photo courtesy CybAero.

		nEUROn completes first flight By Danielle Lucey 03 December 2012 The pan-European nEUROn combat air vehicle made its first flight on 1 Dec. in France, an important step toward operational trials set to start in Sweden in 2014. ...
Photo courtesy Wikipedia.

		NASA and GA-ASI Partner to Bring Command and Control Sat Link to Ikhana By Danielle Lucey 03 December 2012 General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. and NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center are partnering to develop a new command and control satellite like for the Ikhana variant of the Predator B. ...
Photo courtesy GA-ASI.

		Extreme Endurance: CyPhy Works Moves Out of Stealth Mode With EASE and PARC By Brett Davis and Danielle Lucey 28 November 2012 For years now, CyPhy Works has said on its website that it is in “stealth mode.” ...
Photo courtesy Jason Walker/CyPhy Works.

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