Dusty Robotics built an autonomous printer on wheels for construction sites. The company is now worth $250 million.
Dusty Robotics cofounder and CEO Tessa Lau:"So far we have been limited by not being able to build as fast as they want us to."Robotics built an autonomous printer on wheels for construction sites. The company is now worth $250 million.hen Tessa Lau was remodeling her home, she watched her contractor get down on his hands and knees with hand-held tools to do the work. She saw small mistakes and a brush with what could have been a far-larger one during the extensive kitchen renovation.
Today, that four-year-old firm, Dusty Robotics said that it had had raised $45 million led by Scale Venture Partners to ramp up manufacturing and expand its business. The new funding brings total investment to $69 million and puts Dusty’s valuation at $250 million. “We call ourselves the Willow Garage Mafia,” Lau says. “I joined the mafia for about a year at the tail end before it shut down. I learned everything I could about robotics and what it takes to get them out into the world.”
The firm’s first robot, called the Field Printer, is basically an autonomous printer on wheels. It moves around the construction site and prints out plans on the floor that are similar to Ikea instructions. That saves time and money over the old way of mapping out those plans with chalk or marker.
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