

EP 182 - Dylan Ng - CEO of LionsBot - Let's Make Cleaning Robots
Mar 1, 2022
35:34
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:
- What If This Could Be Automated?
- You Have So Many Tomorrows
- All Roads Led To the Same Destination, Robots
- The First Reaction Is Exhaustion
- Humans Are Best for Creative Tasks