50 girls in robotics you have to 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 have to learn about” assortment of tales. With a rising robotics trade there are a lot of alternatives for everybody to become involved. Because of this we showcase the wide selection of roles that girls play in robotics at the moment.

Since 2012, the Ladies in Robotics group has launched a listing of girls constructing the long run in robotics. The checklist has lined 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 corporations, though these tales have usually 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 World Autonomous Expertise 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 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 reasonably priced robotic package that’s been distributed to hundreds of scholars, and is proudest of the SKOBOT challenge. Personalised robots that hold 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 energetic Latinx neighborhood in Ladies 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 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 the moment 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 neighborhood 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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