This Week in the Unmanned Systems and Robotics World

The second annual Drone-Con event recently took place at Palomar College in San Marcos, California on July 6. The event featured more than 30 guest speakers that presented on a variety of topics, as well as breakout sessions covering topics such as starting a UAS program at a school, mapping and surveying with UAS, and UAS career pathways for military veterans. (Palomar News)

Baidu and Mobileye will work together to integrate and commercially deploy Mobileye’s Responsibility Sensitive Safety (RSS) model in the open source Project Apollo program, as well as the commercial Apollo Pilot program. The companies describe their safety collaboration as a “strategic success” for Mobileye’s RSS model, which will help deliver a safe driving technology for autonomous vehicles on China’s challenging roadways. (Intel)

AERTEC Solutions’ TARSIS 75 UAS is continuing its testing campaign in Huelva, Spain at the National Institute for Aerospace Technology’s (INTA) El Arenosillo Testing Centre (CEDEA). Designed for observation and surveillance applications, the UAS recently achieved a new milestone, reaching a distance of 100 kilometers. (sUAS News)

Metamoto Inc.’s Simulation as a Service offering will be available at the beginning of August. The offering will allow companies working on autonomous technology to safely validate their automated vehicle software in the virtual world before they hit public roads. (Business Wire)

University of Colorado (CU) Boulder Integrated Remote and In Situ Sensing (IRISS) Initiative and Black Swift Technologies (BST) have formed a cost-based service program that will give scientists and researchers access to the combined resources of a leading atmospheric research university, and the developer of the “premier” UAS flight management control avionics and advanced aerial platforms, specifically designed for atmospheric science-based missions. (UASWeekly.com)

Black & Veatch will support the Kansas Department of Transportation (KDoT) during the UAS Integration Pilot Program. Specifically, Black & Veatch will help test UAS beyond the operator’s sight. (Black & Veatch)

During the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Einride revealed its autonomous, all-electric logging truck called T-log. The vehicle is powered by the Nvidia Drive self-driving platform, and can reach SEA level 4 self-driving. (Einride)

Pilsner Urquell, which is a Czechoslovakian beer company, recently used Flyability’s collision-tolerant Elios UAS to conduct an inspection at its facility. Elios inspected the beams and trusses of the Pilsner Urquell bottling plant, while managing to negotiate electrical wiring, sound barriers, sprinklers, and vents. (Flyability)

Rio Tinto has completed the first delivery of iron ore by an autonomous train in the Pilbara, Western Australia. Made up of three locomotives, the autonomous train carried around 28,000 tons of iron ore on July 10 as it traveled from Rio Tinto’s mining operations in Tom Price to the port of Cape Lambert. (Rio Tinto)