50 girls in robotics it’s good 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 girls in robotics it’s good to learn about” assortment of tales. With a rising robotics business there are a lot of alternatives for everybody to become involved. 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 ladies constructing the long run in robotics. The checklist has coated all ages, profession levels, varieties of occupation and expertise. We’ve featured greater than 350 girls already and we’ve proven that ladies have at all times been working within the robotics business, within the earliest robotics analysis labs and firms, though these tales have usually 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 bought to Google in 2013. Vandi Verma is the top of NASA’s rover (robotic) program. Joanna Buttler is the top 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 youngsters have having access to robotics. She created an reasonably priced robotic package that’s been distributed to hundreds of scholars, and is proudest of the SKOBOT venture. Personalised 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 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 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 girls doing nice issues in robotics! And we’re happy to current one other assortment of robust feminine function fashions for younger and upcoming roboticists (of any gender).

You can too 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 Range Cocktails on the IROS convention in Detroit, or the launch of the Los Angeles girls in robotics chapter. Girls in Robotics is a world neighborhood group for ladies and non-binary individuals working in robotics and those that’d prefer to work in robotics. Study extra at https://womeninrobotics.org

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