Stephan Matz

Dr.-Ing. Stephan Matz Co-Founder and managing director driveblocks GmbH Stephan is responsible for operations and business at driveblocks. He did his PhD at the Institute of Automotive Technology at the Technical University of Munich after which he worked in the automotive industry for a well-known Tier-1 as project manager and department lead. Besides that he collected experience as independent consultant in the mobility sector and early stage investor.

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Presentation

A robust multi-industry autonomy stack for next generation of machines

The agricultural, construction and mining industries are facing very similar future challenges: A constantly growing pressure on productivity, quality and ecological sustainability oppose sparse production resources such as land, water and energy availability and shortage of well-educated labor. driveblocks develops a scalable autonomy stack tailored to the specific technical and business needs of mobile machinery. Combining machine learning with a multi-domain foundation model and a unique multimodal sensor fusion algorithm, we achieve superior performance in critical scenarios with 10x less data demand. Our modular AD stack and universal data model enables scaling to various industries.