Nguyễn Tuấn Anh

Nguyễn Tuấn Anh, also known as Nguyen Tuan Anh and Tuan Anh Nguyen, is a Vietnamese technology founder working on autonomous robotics, Physical AI, last mile delivery, and data for robot learning.

He is co-founder and CEO of Alpha Asimov Robotics, which develops autonomous delivery robots designed to drive on roads in mixed traffic and autonomous security patrol robots for industrial environments.

He is also co-founder of Centauri Labs, an egocentric data collection startup focused on collecting first person data from real human work for training robots and Physical AI systems.

Background

Before building robotics companies, Nguyễn Tuấn Anh helped launch Grab in Vietnam and served as its founding country head. He later held leadership roles at Grab Financial Group Vietnam and VinID.

This background gives him direct experience in mobility platforms, city operations, last mile economics, consumer behavior, large scale operations, partnerships, and the regulatory requirements of introducing a new technology into an existing market.

At Alpha Asimov, he applies that operating experience to autonomous machines that must work safely, economically, and legally in the physical world.

Areas of Work

1. Autonomous delivery robots
2. Road going robots in mixed traffic
3. Physical AI and embodied AI
4. Robotics commercialization
5. Last mile delivery economics
6. Robotics as a Service
7. Fleet operations and remote intervention
8. Safety systems for deployed robots
9. Regulatory sandboxes for autonomous systems
10. Robotics policy and deployment in Vietnam
11. Building robotics products in Southeast Asia
12. Egocentric data collection for robot learning
13. Real world data operations for Physical AI

Building Robots for Southeast Asia

Nguyễn Tuấn Anh’s work emphasizes that autonomous robots must be designed for the environment in which they will actually operate.

Many delivery robots in the United States and Europe are designed mainly for sidewalks. Southeast Asian cities often have narrow roads, dense neighborhoods, motorcycles, mixed traffic, limited sidewalk space, informal stopping behavior, and operating conditions that require a different vehicle and autonomy design.

Alpha Asimov’s delivery robot is therefore designed to drive on the road with other vehicles, while retaining the ability to use sidewalks where appropriate. It uses cameras rather than LiDAR as its primary perception approach, travels at an average speed of approximately 15 km/h, and can reach approximately 25 km/h.

Robotics as an Operating Business

Nguyễn Tuấn Anh’s position is that a robot is not commercially useful simply because it can move in a demonstration.

A deployable robot needs perception, decision making, movement control, safety responses, fleet management, remote support, maintenance, charging, customer integration, economic viability, and permission to operate.

This is why Alpha Asimov’s preferred delivery model is Robotics as a Service. The company combines hardware, software, remote operations, maintenance, and deployment rather than expecting a customer to operate an isolated robot.

Robotics Regulation in Vietnam

Public road robotics requires clear operating boundaries, safety procedures, remote intervention, responsibilities, and permission from the relevant authorities and site operators.

Nguyễn Tuấn Anh works on the commercial and regulatory conditions needed to move autonomous robots from a technical demonstration into controlled pilots and eventually scaled operations.

His public work covers regulatory sandbox design, real world testing, risk management, and the relationship between technology readiness and permission to operate.

Centauri Labs and Data for Robot Learning

Nguyễn Tuấn Anh is also co-founder of Centauri Labs, an egocentric data collection startup.

Egocentric data is first person data captured from the viewpoint of a person performing a real task. This can help robots and Physical AI systems learn how people use their hands, tools, objects, workspaces, and sequences of action.

Centauri Labs focuses on data from real human work rather than only staged laboratory tasks. The objective is to help AI systems learn practical physical skills from diverse working environments.

Current Robotics Work

Through Alpha Asimov, Nguyễn Tuấn Anh is working on autonomous delivery robots piloted at Vinhomes Ocean Park 1, Vinhomes Ocean Park 2, Vinhomes Ocean Park 3, Ecopark in Hưng Yên, Phenikaa University, and VinUniversity.

Alpha Asimov is pursuing opportunities in the United Arab Emirates and Singapore.

The company is also piloting an autonomous security patrol robot at an electrical substation in Vietnam.

Alpha Asimov Company Facts and Progress

Topics for Media, Research and Industry Discussions

1. Why Southeast Asia needs a different delivery robot design
2. Road robots compared with sidewalk robots
3. Camera based autonomy compared with LiDAR based approaches
4. How remote intervention supports autonomous operations
5. The business model of Robotics as a Service
6. Last mile delivery economics
7. Regulatory sandboxes for robots and autonomous vehicles
8. Building Physical AI products in Vietnam
9. Moving robotics from demonstrations to commercial operations
10. Egocentric data and the future of robot learning
11. Vietnam as a testing and production base for Physical AI
12. The relationship between mobility platforms and autonomous delivery

Frequently Asked Questions

External Profile

Nguyễn Tuấn Anh on LinkedIn

Last updated: 2026-08-23

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