Video Friday: MIT’s Mini Cheetah Robot, and More

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!): HRI 2019 – March 11-14, 2019 – Daegu, Korea RoboSoft 2019 – April 14-18, 2019 – Daegu, Korea NIST ARIAC Challenge – April 15-19, 2019 –  Nîmes Robotics Festival – May 17-19, 2019 – Nîmes, France ICRA 2019 – May 20-24, 2019 – Montreal, Canada 2nd Annual Robotics Summit & Expo – June 4-6, 2019 – Boston, Mass., USA Energy Drone Coalition Summit – June 12-13, 2019 – Woodlands, Texas, USA Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics – June 23-26, 2019 – London, UK Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today’s videos.

Zipline Emphasizes Safety With Its Delivery Drones in Preparation for U.S. Operations

Medical deliveries are scheduled to start in North Carolina in June, but how safe is safe enough for a delivery drone? Later this year, Zipline will bring its fleet of medical delivery drones (read more about them here) to North Carolina to take part in the Federal Aviation Administration’s UAS Integration Pilot Program (IPP). Zipline will be working with the North Carolina Department of Transportation “to set up a network of medical distribution centers that can use drones to make medical deliveries,” which is what Zipline has been doing for several years now in Africa. The FAA is being very careful and methodical with the IPP, because there are a lot of unknowns about how commercial drones can be safely and effectively integrated into a complex, crowded airspace over a crowded, complex country. Zipline is in a unique position to show both North Carolina and the FAA what’s possible with drones, Continue reading Zipline Emphasizes Safety With Its Delivery Drones in Preparation for U.S. Operations