In celebration of the launch of Worldwide Girls in Robotics Day, the Girls in Robotics group is proud to launch one other “50 ladies in robotics you should learn about” assortment of tales. With a rising robotics trade there are numerous alternatives for everybody to get entangled. Because of this we showcase the big selection of roles that ladies play in robotics at present.
Since 2012, the Girls in Robotics group has launched a listing of girls constructing the longer term in robotics. The record has lined all ages, profession phases, forms 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 firms, though these tales have typically been forgotten.
This yr’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 top of NASA’s rover (robotic) program. Joanna Buttler is the top of the World Autonomous Know-how Group for Daimler Truck. And Whitney Rockley based a enterprise capital firm investing solely in ‘industrial web’ firms like Clearpath Robotics.
For the primary time, we characteristic an Indigenous (Ojibwe) American roboticist, Danielle Boyer. Boyer began a non-profit The STEAM Connection to fight the difficulties that many youngsters have gaining access to robotics. She created an inexpensive robotic package that’s been distributed to 1000’s of scholars, and is proudest of the SKOBOT undertaking. Personalised robots that hold tradition and language traditions alive. Boyer epitomizes the motto “Constructing the Future”.
We additionally attempt to characteristic ladies from all areas of the world and this yr’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’s an energetic Latinx group in Girls 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 sturdy feminine position fashions for younger and upcoming roboticists (of any gender).
You may also be a part of within the Girls in Robotics celebrations at present and all through October, with occasions listed on the ladies in robotics website, like Range Cocktails on the IROS convention in Detroit, or the launch of the Los Angeles ladies in robotics chapter. Girls in Robotics is a world group group for ladies and non-binary individuals working in robotics and people who’d prefer to work in robotics. Be taught extra at https://womeninrobotics.org
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Andra Keay
is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, founding father of Girls in Robotics and is a mentor, investor and advisor to startups, accelerators and assume tanks, with a robust curiosity in commercializing socially constructive robotics and AI.
Andra Keay
is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, founding father of Girls in Robotics and is a mentor, investor and advisor to startups, accelerators and assume tanks, with a robust curiosity in commercializing socially constructive robotics and AI.
Girls In Robotics
is a world group for ladies working in robotics, or who aspire to work in robotics
Girls In Robotics
is a world group for ladies working in robotics, or who aspire to work in robotics