Robotics

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

Writing is on the wall for job security with ai.

My favorite thing about robotics is how many disciplines it spans:

- EE, power electronics
- Custom PCB design/layout
- Mechanical engineering, Mechatronics
- If you're in aerospace, that's its own discipline
- Same with Space systems
- Systems engineering actually becomes important
- Software: embedded software systems / design
- Robotics algos: SLAM, motion planning, trajectory planning etc
- Sensor implementations / understanding: sensor validation, bring up, etc 
- Real-time (hard / soft real time software systems)
- EKF/UKF: Kalman filters, and filters for handling noise
- OGFAI: search algos
- Perception: edge perception models
- Networking: routers, traffic handling, ip address assignement locally for multiple robots
- Cloud infra: process sensor data, upload to cloud, explode the sensor data to make sense of what robots did
- GCS: some sort of Ground Control Station (GCS) UI to actually understand what telemetry data they are doing in near real time 
- The new AI stuff: see below (ran out of room)

I think I haven’t touched mechanics, aerospace and OGFAI in the list but I think I have built something using the rest in my tinkerings and career 😇