Clara Vu

Clara Vu is the co-founder and CTO at Veo Robotics, the industrial automation company that created FreeMove®, a comprehensive 3D safeguarding system for industrial robots that powers dynamic human-robot collaboration. She leads the engineering team and supports developments with Veo’s computer vision-powered sensing and intelligence that is used today by four of the biggest industrial robot companies in the world: FANUC, Yaskawa, ABB, and Kuka. With over two decades of experience in robotics, Clara has developed multiple products from inception to market. Clara started her career at iRobot programming robots for oil well exploration; she then moved on to interactive toys and the Roomba. Prior to Veo, Clara was co-founder and director of software development for Harvest Automation, the makers of mobile robots for agricultural automation. Before that, Clara was a product management consultant at Rethink Robotics, where she first met Veo co-founder Patrick Sobalvarro.