by AUVSI News 

This week in the unmanned systems and robotics world, a robot was given a pass at the Davos World Economic Forum, Blackjack is ready for the Marines and AI has been program to write new episodes of a popular ‘90s TV show. 



According to its website, the Federal Aviation Administration has now approved 3,129 commercial UAS exemptions out of about 5,000 requests. 



Insitu’s Blackjack UAS has gained initial operational capability and is ready for deployment with the Marines and Navy. (UPI)



The University of Texas engineering college has invented a self-healing gel that could heal robots after they’ve been damaged. (Fox 10)

Toshiba has demonstrated a robot that it will deploy at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant that can dismantle highly radioactive units. It is still impossible for humans to work inside reactor three at the facility. (International Business Times)




A German engineer has given Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry two robotic cameras to help look inside small passages inside tombs. (Ahram Online)




Amazon’s Paul Misener says the drones the company plans to use for delivery will be able to dodge objects in the way, making them more like riding a horse than driving a car. (New York Daily News)




A Scottish cartoonist has come up with a recurrent neural network robot that generates new episodes of “Friends.” (Geeky Gadgets)




The DRC-Hubo robot from the Korean Institute of Science and Technology is the first robot to receive an ID card at the Davos World Economic Forum, which has been occurring for 46 years. (Deccan Chronicle)

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