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Weekend Roundup
This week in the unmanned systems and robotics world, robots are exploring the world’s oceans, getting ready for an international fight, studying hurricanes and even flipping pancakes.
NASA wants to send robots to study Uranus or Neptune — or both — if it can find the $2 billion or so it would need to do it. (iFree Press)
A group from the University of North Dakota are presenting information to the U.S secretary of defense about automated unmanned systems on the battlefield. (Grand Forks Herald)
NASA’s Global Hawk, now flying out of Wallops Island, Virginia, has already helped inform the forecasting for Tropical Storm Erika. (Delmarva Now)
RoboHow, a European research project, is teaching humanoid robots how to perform everyday tasks, including flipping pancakes. (Fortune)
A 15-foot-tall U.S. robot is gearing up to combat a rival contraption from a Japanese team in a robot battle planned for next year. (Phys.org)
A group of Stanford researchers have created a robotic microscope to study fruit flies, which could help research into human diseases. (ABC 7)
A hotel primarily run by robots is now in operation in Japan, including a dinosaur robot wearing a bow tie and bellhop cap. (Dogonews)
Scientists around the world are relying on underwater robots to fill a knowledge gap about our oceans. (The Christian Science Monitor)
The new Fathom underwater vehicle is aimed at consumers and can be controlled via a smartphone app. (Discovery)
