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Tessa Lau

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Founder at Dusty Robotics

San Francisco Bay Area

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About

Dr. Tessa Lau is the Founder and CEO of Dusty Robotics, a company developing robot-powered tools for the construction workforce. She previously co-founded and served as CTO of Savioke, where she led the deployment of more than 75 delivery robots in hotels and high-rises, and earlier worked as a Research Scientist at Willow Garage and spent 11 years at IBM Research in business process automation and knowledge capture. Lau holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington and has expertise in AI, machine learning, and robotics.

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Dusty Robotics's investors · 8

Canaan PartnersStamford · $500K – $20M checksCantos VenturesSan Francisco · $400K – $1.5M checksGRIDS CapitalSão PauloHumba VenturesSan Francisco · $750K checksNextGen Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $500K – $2M checks · since 2019Root VenturesSan Francisco · since 2022Root Ventures Manager, LlcSan Francisco · $3M – $5M checks · since 2018Scale Venture PartnersSan Francisco · $5M – $25M checks · since 2022

Co-founders at Dusty Robotics

PHPhilipp Herget
Philipp HergetDirector, Promoter

Experience

  1. Dusty RoboticsFounder/CEOcurrent2018 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. SaviokeCTO and Chief Robot Whisperer2013 — 2018Sunnyvale, CA
  3. Willow GarageResearch scientist2012 — 2013Menlo Park, CA, United States and Buenos Aires, Argentina
  4. IBMResearch Staff Member2012
  5. IBMResearch Staff Member and Manager2009 — 2012IBM Research -- Almaden, San Jose, CA, United States
  6. IBMResearch Staff Member2005 — 2009IBM Research -- Almaden, San Jose, CA, United States
  7. IBMResearch Staff Member2001 — 2005IBM Research -- Watson, Hawthorne, NY, United States
  8. MicrosoftResearch summer intern1998

Skills & more

Python6Java6Linux4LaTeX4REST3Eclipse3Unix3Git2Ruby1Open Source1Android1Databases1
+12 moreMachine LearningComputer ScienceProgrammingSoftware EngineeringHuman Computer InteractionSoftware DevelopmentAlgorithmsText MiningIntelligent AgentsData MiningInformation ExtractionNatural Language Processing

Languages English · Spanish

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  • Dusty Robotics Certified Operator — Dusty Robotics

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Who is Tessa Lau?
Dr. Tessa Lau is the Founder and CEO of Dusty Robotics, a company developing robot-powered tools for the construction workforce. She previously co-founded and served as CTO of Savioke, where she led the deployment of more than 75 delivery robots in hotels and high-rises, and earlier worked as a Research Scientist at Willow Garage and spent 11 years at IBM Research in business process automation and knowledge capture. Lau holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Washington and has expertise in AI, machine learning, and robotics.
Where does Tessa Lau work?
Tessa Lau is Founder of Dusty Robotics.
What companies did Tessa Lau found?
Tessa Lau founded Dusty Robotics.
Where did Tessa Lau go to school?
Tessa Lau studied at Cornell University (Bachelor's degree, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics); University of Washington (MS, PhD); Cornell University (BA, BS).

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