Deon Blaauw spent the better part of a decade working with uncrewed/autonomous robotics in one form or another. He specializes in embedded flight control system design for a large variety of vehicles, including fixed wings, rotary wings, and multirotors at Siemens and Lockheed.
He knows how to build mission-critical systems. In the last couple of years, with the tremendous success of transformers and transfer learning, he has started to use machine learning in a variety of business applications and his true love, robotics, to help robots better understand the physical world.