This week at the AUVSI's Unmanned Systems North America conference, representatives from the AUVSI, NATO, DoD, and TTCP will meet for a day long workshop to address the need for standards in autonomous robot aircraft in the areas of airspace management, payload and sensor integration, and frequency spectrum management. More info on the AUVSI's efforts can be found at their online forum. Meanwhile, other organizations are showing off their latest autonomous robots including Warrior Aero-Marine's new GULL 36 autonomous sea plane (PDF format) and robosoft's robuLAB 10. Other vendors are hyping the latest fuel cell energy storage devices for achieving very long run times with autonomous robots.