50 ladies in robotics it’s essential to find out 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’s essential to find out about” assortment of tales. With a rising robotics trade there are numerous alternatives for everybody to get entangled. Because of this we showcase the big selection of roles that girls play in robotics in the present day.

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 levels, sorts of occupation and expertise. We’ve featured greater than 350 ladies already and we’ve proven that girls 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 12 months’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 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 Expertise 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 hundreds of scholars, and is proudest of the SKOBOT undertaking. Customized robots that maintain tradition and language traditions alive. Boyer epitomizes the motto “Constructing the Future”.

We additionally attempt to function ladies from all areas of the world and this 12 months’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 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 ladies doing nice issues in robotics! And we’re happy to current one other assortment of sturdy feminine function fashions for younger and upcoming roboticists (of any gender).

You may as well be a part of within the Girls in Robotics celebrations in the present day 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 ladies in robotics chapter. Girls in Robotics is a worldwide group group for ladies and non-binary individuals working in robotics and those that’d prefer to work in robotics. Be taught extra at https://womeninrobotics.org

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