by AUVSI News 

This week in the unmanned systems and robotics world, LeVar Burton rides in a self-driving car, a ground robot gets navigation pointers from a drone and a robotic farm functions all by itself. 



According to its website, the Federal Aviation Administration has now approved 1,813 commercial UAS exemptions out of over 3,000 requests. 



Researchers from the University of Cape Town in South Africa have invented a robot that, like a spider, uses its own safety tether to help it safely jump. (Engadget)



Best Buy in Manhattan is using a robot employee to handle DVD and CD requests. (Consumerist)



A new report says the £1.2 billion Watchkeeper drone has flown only 146 hours since being commissioned in 2005. (The Guardian)



A robot farm located outside Kyoto in Japan has zero human farmers working. (Modern Farmer)



Kansas State Salina is opening an enclosed drone flight facility later this month that took just weeks to build. (KSAL)



“Reading Rainbow” host LeVar Burton took a spin in a driverless car on the show. (Digg)



ETH Zurich researchers have created a four-legged robot that uses a hexacopter to scout out its navigation for it. (Geek)

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