50 ladies in robotics it’s worthwhile 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 worthwhile to find out about” assortment of tales. With a rising robotics trade there are various alternatives for everybody to get entangled. Because of this we showcase the wide selection of roles that ladies play in robotics right now.

Since 2012, the Girls in Robotics group has launched an inventory of girls constructing the long run in robotics. The listing has lined 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 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 International Autonomous Know-how Group for Daimler Truck. And Whitney Rockley based a enterprise capital firm investing completely in ‘industrial web’ corporations 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. Personalised 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 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 neighborhood in Girls in Robotics engaged in translating extra robotics data 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 function fashions for younger and upcoming roboticists (of any gender).

You may also be part of within the Girls in Robotics celebrations right now 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 worldwide neighborhood 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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