Here is a podcast about training the first generation of drone pilots. A lot of good questions are raised, and these pilots, could see a use in Disaster Relief efforts as well.
Here is the article from IEE Spectrum .

Last week the Arab Regional Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction was held, to put together a guildline for how many Arab conuntires will response to Disasters.
Here is the full article from Ansamed .

Researcher Daniel Goldman, a professor in the School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is studying how animals move through granny surfaces, and trying to create a robot legs that can help a robot easily navigate through theses rough terrain environment. Here is the full article from Phys Org
Here is two more articles talking about terradynamics: Business Insider and Io9

Assistant Professor Dr. Aaron Ames at the A&M Bipedal Experimental Robotics Lab (AMBER), he and his students have worked to create a robot that walks like a human. This techonlogy could have applications in space exploration, disaster response, military operations, prosthetics and other areas. Here is the full article.

Unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, or Drones as this article calls them have become more an more popular in many states. University of North Dakota has become the first university to offer a degree program in unmanned aviation. As well as drones become more wide spread law makers and the FAA are having to raise and answer a lot of questions to keep people safe.
Here is the full article.

Israel is showing off products in the fields of renewable energy, the war on traffic accidents, medicine, search and rescue, and robotics to President Barack Obama.
The search and rescue robot that will be shown is the ‘Robot Snake’. A video of the snake is on the article page. Here is the full article.

New legislation is coming up soon about how drones will be use in Texas. Many law enforcement offices are still pushing to use them more, but also how to not violate privacy.
Here is the full acticle.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have made a transformer robot. This robot has the ability to change into a humanoid and a tank form. This allows this rescue robot to be able to do a much for variety of task within a disaster. Here is the full article.

A cyber war is being held in Syria at the moment. Ahmad Heidar is waging an electronic battle against the Assad regime, trying to shut down the website of the Syrian Electronic Army. Heidar has come up with a new idea of how to help, with creating a rescue robot called ‘Tina’ it is a robot that will help carry wounded people out of the streets of Aleppo.
Here is the full article.

A unmanned plane flew very close to a Italian passenger jet and the FBI are looking for any information about who was flying this plane. Here is the full article.