American Robotics FAA Approval and BASF's Teraxxa Launched Friday Jan 22nd, 2021 **Efforts to grow the local-meat business in California have been hampered by a lack of processing facilities. Now, a group of 16 Bay Area ranchers is tackling the problem by forming a cooperative, called, fittingly, the Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative, to raise enough money to purchase a mobile facility for processing animals for local sale. They say demand for local meat has picked up during the pandemic, but there aren’t enough small meatpackers to meet demand. **American Robotics, a leading developer of fully-automated commercial drone systems, has become the first company approved by the FAA to operate automated drones without human operators on-site.