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 must find out about” assortment of tales. With a rising robotics business there are various alternatives for everybody to become involved. For this reason we showcase the big selection of roles that girls play in robotics at this time.
Since 2012, the Girls in Robotics group has launched a listing of ladies constructing the longer term in robotics. The checklist has coated all ages, profession phases, sorts of occupation and expertise. We’ve featured greater than 350 ladies already and we’ve proven that girls have at all times been working within the robotics business, within the earliest robotics analysis labs and firms, 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 offered to Google in 2013. Vandi Verma is the top of NASA’s rover (robotic) program. Joanna Buttler is the top of the World Autonomous Expertise Group for Daimler Truck. And Whitney Rockley based a enterprise capital firm investing completely in ‘industrial web’ corporations 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 gaining access to robotics. She created an reasonably priced robotic equipment that’s been distributed to hundreds of scholars, and is proudest of the SKOBOT undertaking. Customized robots that preserve tradition and language traditions alive. Boyer epitomizes the motto “Constructing 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’s an lively Latinx neighborhood in Girls in Robotics engaged in translating extra robotics info into Spanish, hoping to create extra connections between the worldwide robotics neighborhood 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 position fashions for younger and upcoming roboticists (of any gender).
You may as well be part of within the Girls in Robotics celebrations at this time and all through October, with occasions listed on the ladies in robotics web site, like Variety Cocktails on the IROS convention in Detroit, or the launch of the Los Angeles ladies in robotics chapter. Girls in Robotics is a worldwide neighborhood group for girls and non-binary folks working in robotics and people who’d wish to work in robotics. Study 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 powerful 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 powerful curiosity in commercializing socially constructive robotics and AI.
Girls In Robotics
is a worldwide neighborhood for girls working in robotics, or who aspire to work in robotics
Girls In Robotics
is a worldwide neighborhood for girls working in robotics, or who aspire to work in robotics