150. Delivery Drones and Our Robot Future | Tessa Lau

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.

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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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