Weekend Roundup

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Google's planned Mountain View headquarters. Photo: Google.




This week’s latest in the unmanned systems and robotics world includes a noodle-slicing robot chef, a new GAO report on the UCLASS program and Daimler’s autonomous semitruck. 



The Federal Aviation Administration also approved 45 more commercial unmanned aircraft systems exemptions including an amendment for AUVSI member San Diego Gas and Electric, which includes four new systems, and Yamaha Motor Corp. USA. AUVSI submitted comments to the FAA in support of Yamaha’s petition last year. The total number of commercial exemptions is now at 289 out of over 1,000 petitions. 



Daimler has received a license by the state of Nevada for an autonomous 18 wheeler. (Business Insider



A new report by the Government Accountability Office says the debate around the primary role of the Navy’s planned Unmanned Carrier-Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike, or UCLASS, system is causing an existential crisis for the program overall. (Defense Systems



China has begun construction on the world’s first factory that will be entirely staffed by its 1,000 robots. (Manufacturing Global



Oregon State University’s ATRIAS robot took its first walk in the park, over a hilly, grassy terrain. The system is being used by the team in June’s DARPA Robotics Challenge. (Engadget



Google plans to use robotic cranes, or crabots, to build its new Mountain View, California, headquarters. (9 to 5 Google)



A restaurant in China has a new noodle-cutting robot named Foxbot that can also clean itself. (Business Insider)



Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin are using a robotic exoskeleton to rehabilitate recovering stroke victims. (KXAN)

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