Robot hops over wall

A fun video:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8253721.stm

[T]he Precision Urban Hopper can use a piston-actuated "leg" to launch it over obstacles such as walls or fences.

Building motivation into AI

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/23354/page1/

Not a terribly convincing argument:

Indeed, a really advanced intelligence, improperly motivated, might realize the impermanence of all things, calculate that the sun will burn out in a few billion years, and decide to play video games for the remainder of its existence, concluding that inventing an even smarter machine is pointless.

Pakistan's UAVs

http://blog.taragana.com/n/paf-using-unmanned-drones-in-war-exercise-160619/

“PAF is employing for the first time in the recent drills pilotless UAV drone planes to target the enemies. It was due to the precision of PAF planning that common people were not among the casualties,” Air Vice Marshal Hasan said