50 girls in robotics you could learn about 2023

In celebration of the launch of Worldwide Ladies in Robotics Day, the Ladies in Robotics group is proud to launch one other “50 girls in robotics you could learn about” assortment of tales. With a rising robotics business there are numerous alternatives for everybody to become involved. That is why we showcase the big selection of roles that girls play in robotics at this time.

Since 2012, the Ladies in Robotics group has launched an inventory of girls 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 girls already and we’ve proven that girls have all the time been working within the robotics business, 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 International 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 having access to robotics. She created an reasonably priced robotic package that’s been distributed to 1000’s of scholars, and is proudest of the SKOBOT challenge. Personalised robots that preserve tradition and language traditions alive. Boyer epitomizes the motto “Constructing the Future”.

We additionally attempt to characteristic girls 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 may be an lively Latinx group in Ladies in Robotics engaged in translating extra robotics data into Spanish, hoping to create extra connections between the worldwide robotics group and the roboticists, and potential roboticists, of Latin America.

There have all the time been girls 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 as well be a part of within the Ladies in Robotics celebrations at this time 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 girls in robotics chapter. Ladies in Robotics is a worldwide group group for ladies and non-binary folks working in robotics and those that’d wish to work in robotics. Be taught extra at https://womeninrobotics.org

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