EP 182 - Dylan Ng - CEO of LionsBot - Let's Make Cleaning Robots

The Asia Tech Podcast spoke to Dylan Ng, the CEO of LionsBot International.  LionsBot grew out of the realization that there was a need for better and more powerful cleaning robots.

Some of the topics that Dyland and I discussed:

• Founding his first company, SuperSteam Asia Pacific with his wife, Michelle Seow
• Snowballed into the largest cleaning equipment distributor in Singapore
• As time passed, fewer people wanted to do cleaning work
• Was initially against using robots to clean
• How he and Michelle changed their minds about robots
• Traveled all over the world looking for the best robots to import
• Being underwhelmed with what he found - too big and too expensive
• Getting a call from Professor Rajesh Elara Mohan from Singapore University of Technology and Design
• Professor Mohan had already taken one of their cleaning machines and added robotics to it
• Quickly decided to start a robotics company together and build cleaning robots
• Started with 5 engineers and will likely have almost 300 by year-end 2022
• The reaction to the robots from the human cleaners was surprising
• Who is the competition

Other titles we considered for this episode:

1. What If This Could Be Automated?
2. You Have So Many Tomorrows
3. All Roads Led To the Same Destination, Robots
4. The First Reaction Is Exhaustion
5. Humans Are Best for Creative Tasks