by AUVSI News 

This week in the unmanned systems and robotics world, Canada’s government is studying the integration of robotic cars, Afghanistan is adding a drone to its air force and the University of Washington Seattle makes advances in bionic hand technology. 



According to its website, the Federal Aviation Administration has now approved 3,426 commercial UAS exemptions.



The Georgia Institute of Technology invented a robotic smart arm that allows drummers to have three arms. (CNET)



Researchers from Columbia University have developed a robot that can iron clothes. (Motherboard)



Canada’s senate and Ministry of Transport are addressing and studying the impact of integrating driverless cars into the country. (CTV News Montreal)



Airbus Helicopters and the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore signed an agreement this week to address parcel delivery in the nation state. (Vulcan Post)



The University of Southampton has developed an unmanned aircraft that has wings that mimic the membranes of bat wings. (R&D)



The U.S. Air Force is struggling to reinvent how it acquires and uses intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance unmanned aircraft that are massively effective yet increasingly vulnerable due to their slow speed. (Defense Systems)



Afghanistan is expanding its air force this March by starting to use a surveillance drone on missions. (Reuters)



Researchers at the University of Washington Seattle have created a kinematically accurate biomimetic anthropomorphic robotic hand. (IEEE Spectrum)



The Army plans to add on-demand 3-D printing of UAS at the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiments 2017. (Army.mil)

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