This week in the unmanned systems and robotics world, the European Union has agreed upon a rollout plan for driverless cars, ESPN is going to cover drone racing and microrobots could make our water cleaner.



According to its website, the Federal Aviation Administration has now approved 4,793 commercial UAS exemptions.



A video uploaded to YouTube shows how not everyone is prepared to accept increasingly driverless cars. (The Next Web)



ESPN is going to broadcast the 2016 U.S. National Drone Racing Championships, set to take place in August in New York City. (CNBC)



The European Commission and European Union member states agreed upon a declaration to cooperate on connected and automated driving technology. (GPS Business News)



GM’s acquisition of Cruise Automation has been hit by a legal battle from an engineer claiming an equity interest in the three-year-old driverless car technology company. (The Wall Street Journal)



The Australian Post is testing out package delivery via drone. (The Australian)



An article in the journal Nano Letters says that microrobots smaller than the width of a human hair could remove lead and other contaminants from industrial wastewater. (The Huffington Post)



DARPA has completed phase one of its XS-1 space plane concept and is moving onto the build phase. (Extreme Tech)



Another flawed Microsoft AI bot was released, this one with the intention of automatically generation captions for photos. Among its incorrect assertions is that Michelle Obama is a cell phone. (The Daily Beast)

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