50 ladies in robotics it’s good 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 ladies in robotics it’s good to find out about” assortment of tales. With a rising robotics trade there are a lot of alternatives for everybody to get entangled. For this reason we showcase the big selection of roles that ladies play in robotics at present.

Since 2012, the Ladies in Robotics group has launched an inventory of girls constructing the long run in robotics. The record has lined all ages, profession levels, sorts 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 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 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’ 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 youngsters 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. Customized robots that hold 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 may be an energetic Latinx group in Ladies 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 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).

It’s also possible to be a part of within the Ladies in Robotics celebrations at present and all through October, with occasions listed on the ladies in robotics web site, like Variety Cocktails on the IROS convention in Detroit, or the launch of the Los Angeles ladies in robotics chapter. Ladies in Robotics is a worldwide group group for girls and non-binary individuals working in robotics and those that’d wish to work in robotics. Study extra at https://womeninrobotics.org

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