50 ladies in robotics it is advisable to learn about 2023

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 it is advisable to learn about” assortment of tales. With a rising robotics trade there are numerous alternatives for everybody to become involved. Because of this we showcase the wide selection of roles that ladies play in robotics immediately.

Since 2012, the Girls in Robotics group has launched a listing of ladies constructing the long run in robotics. The checklist has coated all ages, profession phases, varieties of occupation and expertise. We’ve featured greater than 350 ladies already and we’ve proven that ladies have at all times 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 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 pinnacle of NASA’s rover (robotic) program. Joanna Buttler is the pinnacle of the World 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 characteristic an Indigenous (Ojibwe) American roboticist, Danielle Boyer. Boyer began a non-profit The STEAM Connection to fight the difficulties that many children have having access to robotics. She created an inexpensive 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 characteristic ladies 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’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 sturdy feminine position fashions for younger and upcoming roboticists (of any gender).

You may also be a part of within the Girls in Robotics celebrations immediately and all through October, with occasions listed on the ladies in robotics website, 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 world neighborhood group for girls and non-binary individuals working in robotics and people who’d wish to work in robotics. Study extra at https://womeninrobotics.org

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