Dr. Tessa Lau (@tessalau) is the founder and CEO of Dusty Robotics, a startup whose mission is to address construction industry labor shortages by introducing robotic automation on the jobsite. Prior to Dusty, she was CTO/co-founder at Savioke, where she orchestrated the deployment of 75+ delivery robots into hotels and high-rises and she’s spent an impressive career (including 11 years at IBM) focused on automation and giving people superpowers.In today’s episode we discuss:- What makes scaling a robot fleet so hard- Why Tessa is a big proponent of universal basic income- How far are we from human-level intelligence- Why we’ll have full self-driving in ten years- The risk of building robots that look human- Why construction is prime for disruption- The unique challenges of building a hardware robotics company- What automation will do towards affordable housing- The state of drone delivery and more- Why we’re headed towards a future with no privacy- Where to focus on a career for the future- The big problem with robot anthropomorphism

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