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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

A new robot has found its way to Antarctica. This robot is called ‘Yeti’, this little robot runs ahead of convoys and other larger vehicles looking for cracks that the larger vehicles could fall through. In the article it explains some more of the benefits of ‘Yeti’ and some hopes to get more robots to help out in such harsh environment.

Boston Dynamics has expanded their robots functions by adding a arm that can throw 50 pounds (23 kg) weights using its whole body.
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This article is showing off a new UAV that instead of avoiding collisions it takes them and uses them to better understand its surroundings.
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This article is about how human drivers are not letting the robots autonomy do the job it is built to do.
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