This Week in the Unmanned Systems and Robotics World

A culinary robotics company called Creator has designed an autonomous robot that cooks and builds burgers to order. The machine is made up of 20 computers, 350 sensors and 50 actuators that form a robotic assembly line. (CNBC)

MyDefence has launched a next generation wearable Counter UAS technology called PITBULL. PITBULL uses smart jamming to defeat enemy UAS. (MyDefence)

Fresh Air Educators, which is a member of the Small UAV Coalition, has launched an online preparatory safety course for aspiring Part 107 pilots at DRONEcourse.com. The safety course is fully narrated, and includes video and animated competency exercises based on e-learning best practices. It also covers all required standards and competencies for the in-person Part 107 knowledge test. (PR Newswire)

For the next three to six months, saildrones will be used to patrol offshore from Vancouver Island to Southern California. The unmanned vehicles will assess fish populations and gather meteorological data. (Yakima Herald-Republic)

On June 22, the Northeast UAS Airspace Integration Research (NUAIR) Alliance flew one of its UAS at the Oswego County Airport in Volney, New York in an effort to test the airspace. Two NUAIR employees flew the UAS around at different altitudes while checking to see how the airspace handled the technology. (Watertown Daily Times)

Skyguide and AirMap recently successfully demonstrated Swiss U-space, which is the first nationwide drone traffic management system in Europe. Similar to the Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) initiative in the United States, U-space is a “collaborative effort to enable situational awareness, data exchange, and digital communication for the European drone ecosystem,” the companies say. (Skyguide)

Self-driving shuttles are expected to transport passengers to various destinations in Columbus, Ohio by the end of this year through an autonomous vehicle shuttle service. The goal is to have the shuttles tested without passengers in October and November, and in December, the shuttles would take people to key Scioto Mile destinations, which is located in the heart of downtown Columbus. (Cleveland.com)

Baidu Inc. has announced China’s first cloud-to-edge AI chip, Kunlun. Built to accommodate “high performance requirements of a wide variety of AI scenarios,” Kunlun can be applied to both cloud and edge scenarios, including autonomous vehicles. (GlobeNewswire)

Toyota is sponsoring Energy Observer, the world's first autonomous hydrogen-powered ship, on a six-year world tour. Built in Canada in 1983, the specially adapted race boat uses solar, wind and wave-generated power, as well as carbon-free hydrogen generated from seawater. (TechRadar)

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. has announced a basic agreement with marine testing and training facility, The Underwater Centre (TUC), to conduct a verification test of a prototype AUV equipped with a robot arm for subsea pipeline inspection. Scheduled for October of this year, the test will be the first such test in the world. (Kawasaki Heavy Industries)