Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton rhymers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. "The LOw-Cost Unmanned aerial vehicle Swarming Technology (LOCUST) is a prototype tube-launched UAV. The LOCUST program will make possible the launch of multiple swarming UAVs to autonomously overwhelm an adversary."

By 2020, more than five million jobs are expected to be lost to robots and artificial intelligence. And in the next two decades, graduates will be going into jobs that don't yet exist. Anticipating this future, businesses and employers are overhauling their recruitment strategies. Job hopping has replaced the one job, one-employer career, and hybrid jobs are on the rise. Employers want recruits who have strong technical and soft skills such as empathy and flexibility.

Even though we use our iPhones all day, every day, there are still a handful of features that are relatively unknown. Some of these features are buried in the Settings menu, while others are hidden in plain sight. Plus, there are a few things Siri can do for you that you may not know about. You can respond to texts directly from your lock screen by pulling down on the notification drawer and swiping over to the left on the text notification. You'll see a "Reply" option, and tapping it will let you type a response without having to unlock your iPhone.

Los Angeles, California – Indie developer and computer vision engineer, Mustafa Jaber, is pleased to announce the release of Capture Caption Lite, an AI-based app developed for iOS and Android devices. With the Capture Caption app, users can snap a photo with their smartphone or iPad and artificial intelligence will generate a word cloud using cutting-edge computer technology. These word clouds can be then downloaded to the user's image library and shared across multiple social media platforms. The brainchild of electrical engineer and image processing expert Mustafa Jaber, the app uses an artificial intelligence platform that derives information from images. This program understands the content of any image by using powerful machine-learning models, which can quickly classify images into thousands of categories.

This metal marvel might just be the soldier of the future... but far from being science fiction, this one is real. Affectionately known as Ivan the Terminator, Project Iron Man is a humanoid military robot currently being developed in Russia. For years, the country has been trying to keep up with the U.S. and China, which are building robots, drones and other military hi-tech machines with great success. The aim of the Russian robot soldier is to'replace the person in the battle or in emergency areas where there is a risk of explosion, fire, high background radiation, or other conditions that are harmful to humans', Komosomolskaya Pravda reported. This humanoid military robot is currently being developed in Russia.

Can software identify complex personality traits simply by analysing your face? Faception, a start-up based in Tel Aviv, Israel, courted controversy this week when it claimed its tech does just that. And not just broad categories such as introvert or extrovert: Faception claims it can spot terrorists, paedophiles – and brand promoters. "Using automated feature extraction is standard for face recognition and emotion recognition," says Raia Hadsell, a machine vision engineer at Google DeepMind. The controversial part is what happens next.

This week's top Machine Learning stories, including robots to drive your car, diagnose your medical images, pick up your mess, and more! Machine Learning is one of the most exciting fields in the world. Every week we discover something new, something amazing, something revolutionary. It's incredible, but it can also be overwhelming. That's why we created This Week in Machine Learning!

We accept that to err is human. When our electronic counterparts fail us--whether its baggage screening software or the latest artificial intelligence--we are quick to shun their advice in the future. That has big implications as machines infiltrate the workplace, offering services once provided by human colleagues. University of Wisconsin researchers recently sought to test how we might get along with our future AI coworkers. The researchers asked 160 college undergraduates to forecast scheduling for hospital rooms, an unfamiliar task.

Small drones are inefficient birds. They fly for short bursts of time, and get thrown about in the wind. That's not great for anyone hoping to use a drone as a hovering sentry, but there's a better way: tethers. Put a leash on a drone, and suddenly it's a flexible flying watchdog, able to peek up high and then recharge safely in its mechanical nest. This is Aerovironment's Tether Eye, a quadcopter promising 24 hour surveillance from a height of 150 feet, all in one tidy box.

Supporters of the slain Taliban chief have held funeral prayers across Pakistan for Mullah Akhtar Mansour, killed in a U.S. drone attack last week. Some 400 Jamaat-ud Dawa members held the ceremony Friday in the northwestern city of Peshawar. Similar ceremonies were also held in Quetta, Hyderabad and Karachi. Jamaat-ud Dawa is a terror organization widely believed to be front group for Lashkar-e-Taiba, blamed for the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai. The funeral prayers took place even though Mansour's body is still in the hands of Pakistani authorities for DNA testing.