Beginning this spring, a neighborhood grocer called Stop & Shop will utilize driverless grocery vehicles from Robomart to give consumers in the Greater Boston area the opportunity to shop right from their doorsteps. ​The vehicles will be used to bring a selection of Stop & Shop's produce, as well as meal kits and convenience items, directly to consumers, in an effort to address their desires to select their own fresh produce when shopping online or using a mobile app, while also delivering an even more convenient grocery shopping experience for Stop & Shop customers in the Boston area. The vehicles will also provide the potential for Stop & Shop to expand beyond its existing brick-and-mortar footprint.

Airobotics has announced that it recently obtained the first and only Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) approval in Australia to operate automated UAS from its Remote Operations Center (ROC) beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) with no aircrew needed at the client site. Remote pilots are located at a designated Remote Pilot Station (RPS) within Airobotics Australia’s ROC. They are operating more than 1,000 kilometers away from onsite systems at the customer sites. According to Airobotics, this new “man on the loop” level of operations allows human operators to supervise flights without the need for “man in the loop” pilots to intervene in flight operations.

University of Iowa (UI) graduates have developed what they are calling the first autonomous training device for football receivers. Known as the Seeker, the robotic quarterback throws footballs to receivers autonomously, allowing players to practice independently. The robot also provides a plethora of beneficial data that allows coaches to track the work ethic of their players, including the time of day the player practiced, the number of repetitions, and how quickly they were completed. Video footage of the Seeker in action can be seen below: