50 girls in robotics you have to find out 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 find out about” assortment of tales. With a rising robotics trade there are a lot of alternatives for everybody to become involved. That is why we showcase the wide selection of roles that ladies play in robotics in the present day.

Since 2012, the Ladies in Robotics group has launched a listing of girls constructing the longer term in robotics. The checklist has lined all ages, profession phases, varieties of occupation and expertise. We’ve featured greater than 350 girls already and we’ve proven that ladies have all the time been working within the robotics trade, within the earliest robotics analysis labs and corporations, though these tales have usually been forgotten.

This 12 months’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 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 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 youngsters 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 undertaking. Customized robots that hold 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’s an lively 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 all the time been girls doing nice issues in robotics! And we’re happy to current one other assortment of robust feminine position fashions for younger and upcoming roboticists (of any gender).

You may also be a part of within the Ladies in Robotics celebrations in the present day 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 girls in robotics chapter. Ladies in Robotics is a world neighborhood group for girls and non-binary individuals working in robotics and those that’d wish to work in robotics. Be taught extra at https://womeninrobotics.org

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