This Week in the Unmanned Systems and Robotics World




A group of 46 high school STEM students spent their summer building autonomous mini cars at MIT. Nearly half the students were from the Boston area, with other students coming from places as far as California. Last Friday, they wrapped up their summer experience by racing the cars against each other. (Boston.com)




A startup company called Verify is providing users of unmanned systems the opportunity to get on demand insurance, on a per-flight basis. The insurance will be available through a mobile app. (Tech Crunch)




Eversource, a New Hampshire based energy company, will begin testing the use of UAS for the inspection of power lines. The hope is that UAS can eventually help compliment the work done by repairmen. (WMUR)




A school in Kent County, Maryland recently launched an unmanned vessel called Osprey from the shores in New Jersey. The vessel has GPS to allow the kids at Kent School to track its journey across the Atlantic Ocean. (Kent County News)




Stony Brook University is using a UAS to help with the delivery of medical samples from Madagascar to labs for testing and observation. Stony Brook is working with a Michigan startup called Vayu Inc. The first successful use of the UAS came in late July. (ABC News)




Russia is currently working on an unmanned system to help with agricultural upkeep. The goal is to have the system running on Russia’s version of GPS, the Glonass navigation system, by 2018. (Sputknik News)




An AUV is being used to keep track of conditions in the Great Lakes in Michigan. The AUV, named Tethys, is a project under the U.S. Geological Survey and the Great Lakes Science Center. (Wood TV)




A metro system in India is welcoming driverless trains. The driverless trains will conduct trial runs for the Delhi metro, over a nearly six-mile stretch on the Magenta Line. (Deccan Herald)




According to its website, the Federal Aviation Administration has now approved 5,538 commercial UAS exemptions.

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