# Philipp Herget

> Philipp Herget is the co-founder and CTO of Dusty Robotics, where he applies a career spent on precision hardware to the untidy reality of construction sites. After doctoral work at Carnegie Mellon, research at IBM and hardware leadership at hotel-robot company Savioke, he co-founded Dusty with Tessa Lau in 2018. Their FieldPrinter turns Revit and AutoCAD models into full-scale instructions on jobsite floors, an idea discovered only after the founders abandoned their original plan for a construction-site vacuum.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Dusty Robotics
- **Organizations:** Dusty Robotics, Savioke, IBM Research, Carnegie Mellon University
- **Education:** BS, Electrical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MS and PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Dusty Robotics and led the technology behind its BIM-to-field layout system., Named on more than 30 patents according to a 2025 professional biography, spanning data storage, service robotics and construction printing., Co-authored technical research including a laser-diode height-control system that achieved plus or minus 9 nanometers of residual position error in testing.

## Career timeline

- **1999** — Won the open class and judges' choice in Carnegie Mellon's Mobot autonomous-robot race with teammate Jason Messier and their robot, Moby Wan Kenobi.
- **2004-2005** — Worked as a postdoctoral researcher on magneto-optical storage systems at Carnegie Mellon's Data Storage Systems Center.
- **2006** — Joined IBM's Almaden Research Center, working on magnetic tape heads and later thin-film inductors for on-chip power conversion.
- **2010s** — Became robotics hardware lead at Savioke, developing autonomous delivery robots for hotels.
- **2018** — Co-founded Dusty Robotics with Tessa Lau and became CTO.
- **2020-2021** — Dusty's FieldPrinter passed one million square feet of commercial construction layout in eight months, including projects in San Francisco and Seattle.
- **2022** — Dusty Robotics raised a $45 million Series B, bringing reported total funding to about $69 million.
- **2024** — Dusty introduced FieldPrinter 2 and the broader FieldPrint Platform.
- **2025** — In a published Q&A, Herget said Dusty had printed more than 200 million square feet across thousands of buildings.
- **2026** — A U.S. patent naming Herget and colleagues described how a printing robot can continue through temporary tracking shadows caused by jobsite obstacles.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Dusty Robotics and led the technology behind its BIM-to-field layout system.
- Named on more than 30 patents according to a 2025 professional biography, spanning data storage, service robotics and construction printing.
- Co-authored technical research including a laser-diode height-control system that achieved plus or minus 9 nanometers of residual position error in testing.
- Won first place and judges' choice in the 1999 Carnegie Mellon Mobot open class.
- Helped develop Savioke's autonomous room-service robots before applying field robotics to construction.
- Helped scale Dusty's reported footprint beyond 200 million square feet of printed layout by 2025.

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — U.S. Patent 12,602,050, naming Herget, Nickolas Rossi and Michael Thompson, was granted for operating a printing robot through temporary tracking shadows.
- **2026-03** — Herget appeared with Dusty's leadership team in UNI Network Magazine; the feature reported deployments in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
- **2026-02** — A patent application naming Herget, Tessa Lau and Michael Thompson was published for printing trade information alongside construction layout lines.
- **2025-11** — Herget discussed Dusty's Leica AT500 integration, smaller work areas and more than 200 million square feet of printed layout in a RoboticsTomorrow Q&A.

## Links

- Website: https://www.dustyrobotics.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pherget
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/dustyrobotics
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dustyrobotics
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dusty.robotics/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DustyRobotics

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Last updated: 2026-09-26