This week in the unmanned systems and robotics world, Google’s self-driving cars gained a new skill, Epson is entering the robot realm and a university made a robotic cowboy.



According to its website, the Federal Aviation Administration has now approved 5,291 commercial UAS exemptions.



Hong Kong company Baidu wants to have driverless cars on the road in five years. (The Wall Street Journal)



Printer giant Epson has unveiled a new piezo force sensor that will change “the way robots can be used,” according to its president. (Reuters)



University of Sussex researchers are studying mollusk brains, which use a two-cell system and a neuron to know when food is present, to enable robotic neuronal systems. (Juice Brighton)



Harsco Corp. and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory are working on unmanned vehicle technology for railway safety. (Central Penn Business Journal)



Google’s self-driving cars have learned a new trick — polite horn honking in necessary scenarios. (The Washington Post)



A solar-powered robot invented by a professor at the University of Sydney in Australia replaces human cattle farmers, an industry facing a labor shortage. (Mirror)

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