According to a new Post-Gazette.com story, the Society of Automotive Engineers is adopting the military Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems (JAUS) for use as a non-military robotics standard. JAUS has been under development by the military for five years as a set of standards and a reference architecture for the hardward of autonomous robots. The SAE Aerospace Council has established an unmanned systems standards committee to adapt JAUS as a civilian aerospace standard.