In celebration of the launch of Worldwide Girls in Robotics Day, the Girls in Robotics group is proud to launch one other “50 girls in robotics it’s essential learn about” assortment of tales. With a rising robotics trade there are various alternatives for everybody to get entangled. This is the reason we showcase the wide selection of roles that ladies play in robotics right now.
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 levels, forms of occupation and expertise. We’ve featured greater than 350 girls already and we’ve proven that ladies have all the time been working within the robotics trade, within the earliest robotics analysis labs and corporations, though these tales have typically been forgotten.
This yr’s assortment consists of 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 function an Indigenous (Ojibwe) American roboticist, Danielle Boyer. Boyer began a non-profit The STEAM Connection to fight the difficulties that many children have gaining access to robotics. She created an inexpensive robotic equipment that’s been distributed to 1000’s of scholars, and is proudest of the SKOBOT mission. Personalised robots that hold tradition and language traditions alive. Boyer epitomizes the motto “Constructing the Future”.
We additionally attempt to function 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 Girls 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 robust feminine position fashions for younger and upcoming roboticists (of any gender).
You can even be a part of within the Girls in Robotics celebrations right now 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 girls in robotics chapter. Girls in Robotics is a world group group for girls and non-binary folks 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 suppose 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 suppose tanks, with a robust curiosity in commercializing socially constructive robotics and AI.
Girls In Robotics
is a world group for girls working in robotics, or who aspire to work in robotics
Girls In Robotics
is a world group for girls working in robotics, or who aspire to work in robotics
