50 girls in robotics you must find out 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 must find out about” assortment of tales. With a rising robotics trade there are numerous alternatives for everybody to get entangled. 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 a listing of ladies constructing the long run in robotics. The listing has coated all ages, profession levels, sorts of occupation and expertise. We’ve featured greater than 350 girls already and we’ve proven that girls 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 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 pinnacle of NASA’s rover (robotic) program. Joanna Buttler is the pinnacle of the International Autonomous Know-how Group for Daimler Truck. And Whitney Rockley based a enterprise capital firm investing completely 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 reasonably priced robotic package that’s been distributed to 1000’s of scholars, and is proudest of the SKOBOT challenge. Customized robots that maintain 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 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 at all times 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 also 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 web site, 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 individuals working in robotics and people who’d prefer to work in robotics. Study extra at https://womeninrobotics.org

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