In celebration of the launch of International Women in Robotics Day, the Women in Robotics group is proud to launch one other “50 women in robotics you need to know about” assortment of tales. With a rising robotics trade there are lots of alternatives for everybody to get entangled. This is why we showcase the wide selection of roles that ladies play in robotics right now.
Since 2012, the Women in Robotics group has launched an inventory of ladies constructing the longer term in robotics. The record has lined all ages, profession phases, kinds of occupation and expertise. We’ve featured greater than 350 ladies already and we’ve proven that ladies have at all times been working within the robotics trade, within the earliest robotics analysis labs and corporations, though these tales have usually been forgotten.
This 12 months’s assortment contains Nancy Cornelius, co-founder of Boston Dynamics and the primary engineer employed. Cornelius remained an integral a part of Boston Dynamics till the corporate was bought to Google in 2013. Vandi Verma is the pinnacle of NASA’s rover (robotic) program. Joanna Buttler is the pinnacle of the Global Autonomous Technology Group for Daimler Truck. And Whitney Rockley based a enterprise capital firm investing solely in ‘industrial internet’ firms like Clearpath Robotics.
For the primary time, we function an Indigenous (Ojibwe) American roboticist, Danielle Boyer. Boyer began a non-profit The STEAM Connection to fight the difficulties that many youngsters have having access to robotics. She created an inexpensive robotic package that’s been distributed to 1000’s of scholars, and is proudest of the SKOBOT challenge. Personalized robots that preserve tradition and language traditions alive. Boyer epitomizes the motto “Building the Future”.
We additionally attempt to function ladies from all areas of the world and this 12 months’s assortment represents Nigeria, India, China, Australia, Japan, Switzerland, Croatia, Korea, Denmark, Singapore, Italy, Romania, United States, Sweden, Spain, Canada, the UK, Israel, Austria, Belgium, Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. There is an lively Latinx group in Women in Robotics engaged in translating extra robotics info into Spanish, hoping to create extra connections between the worldwide robotics group and the roboticists, and potential roboticists, of Latin America.
There have at all times been ladies doing nice issues in robotics! And we’re happy to current one other assortment of robust feminine function fashions for younger and upcoming roboticists (of any gender).
You may be a part of within the Women in Robotics celebrations right now and all through October, with occasions listed on the ladies in robotics website, like Diversity Cocktails on the IROS convention in Detroit, or the launch of the Los Angeles ladies in robotics chapter. Women in Robotics is a worldwide group group for girls and non-binary folks working in robotics and people who’d wish to work in robotics. Learn extra at https://womeninrobotics.org
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Andra Keay
is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, founding father of Women in Robotics and is a mentor, investor and advisor to startups, accelerators and assume tanks, with a powerful curiosity in commercializing socially optimistic robotics and AI.
Andra Keay
is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, founding father of Women in Robotics and is a mentor, investor and advisor to startups, accelerators and assume tanks, with a powerful curiosity in commercializing socially optimistic robotics and AI.
Women In Robotics
is a worldwide group for girls working in robotics, or who aspire to work in robotics
Women In Robotics
is a worldwide group for girls working in robotics, or who aspire to work in robotics