Meet Dave Ferguson Kea’s 2022 World Class New Zealand Award winner

Dave is the co-founder and president of robotics company Nuro, focused on accelerating the benefits of robotics in everyday life. Nuro is the first company to achieve fully autonomous vehicle operations in the US states of Arizona, California, and Texas.
During the pandemic, Dave volunteered Nuro's technology to enable contactless delivery of food and medicine to essential workers in the community. Before starting Nuro, Dave was a principal engineer on Google’s self-driving program, and one of his algorithms is currently being used on NASA’s Mars Rovers. Dave is passionate about getting other young Kiwis into the tech sector and has created a scholarship for robotics students at the University of Otago.