by AUVSI News 

This week in the unmanned systems and robotics world, Google is irked by California’s driverless car proposal, the LDUUV is months from deep-ocean testing and Lufthansa flew a drone at Frankfurt airport.



According to its website, the Federal Aviation Administration has now approved 2,655 commercial UAS exemptions out of about 4,700 requests. 



In 2016, Google will spin off its driverless car project into its own company under Alphabet. (Motor Trend)



Europe is going to continue its Neuron trails through 2016 in an effort to keep pushing to get a homegrown ISR unmanned aircraft. (Aviation Week, premium content)



Google is voicing its disapproval of preliminary rules out of California requiring self-driving cars to have a driver and only allowing owners to lease the vehicles. (Time)



The U.K. Royal Navy is trying to spin up two separate unmanned aircraft programs, but whether the Ministry of Defence will fund the programs in 2016 remains to be seen. (Defense News)



The Large-Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle will undergo deep-ocean navigation testing as early as spring, according to the Office of Naval Research. (National Defense)



Northrop Grumman is designing a tail-down UAV for DARPA’s Tactically Exploited Reconnaissance Node program. (Gizmag)



A report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies says red tape inside the Department of Homeland Security is stifling the adoption of unmanned aircraft. (National Defense)



Lufthansa flew an unmanned aircraft out of Frankfurt airport to gain experience using a UAS can be detected by a radar system inside of regular air traffic. (Flightglobal)

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