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Investors warn Deep Tech founders about these 12 pitfalls
Silicon Valley Robotics
16 Dec 2021
Here’s a collection of tips for Deep Tech founders gathered from the GIST TechConnect Panel on Deep Tech with Nakia Melecio from Georgia Tech, Nhi Lê from WARF, Andra Keay from SVR and The Robotics Hub, G. Nagesh Rao from US Dept of State.
Robots can be companions, caregivers, collaborators — and social influencers
The Conversation
26 Nov 2021
People are hardwired to respond socially to technology that presents itself as even vaguely social. While this may sound like the beginnings of a Black Mirror episode, this tendency is precisely what allows us to enjoy social interactions with robots and place them in caregiver, collaborator or companion roles.
Top 10 recommendations for a video gamer who you’d like to read (or even just touch) a book
Robin Murphy
20 Nov 2021
Here is the Robotics Through Science Fiction Top 10 recommendations of books that have robots plus enough world building to rival Halo or Doom and lots of action or puzzles to solve. What’s even cooler is that you can cleverly use the “Topics” links to work in some STEM talking points.
Join the Women in Robotics Photo Challenge
Women In Robotics
12 Oct 2021
How can women feel as if they belong in robotics if we can't see any pictures of women building or programming robots? The Civil Rights Activist Marian Wright Edelson aptly said, "You can't be what yo...
Ethics is the new Quality
Alan Winfield
30 May 2021
I took part in the first panel at the BSI conference The Digital World: Artificial Intelligence. The subject of the panel was AI Governance and Ethics. My co-panelist was Emma Carmel, and we wer...
Meet the #NCCRWomen in robotics
NCCR Digital Fabrication (DFAB)
24 May 2021
Meet Maria Vittoria and Inés!
To celebrate Women’s Day 2021 and the 50th anniversary of women's right to vote in Switzerland, the Swiss NCCRs (National Centres of Competence in Research) wanted to...
On sustainable robotics
Alan Winfield
20 Apr 2021
The climate emergency brooks no compromise: every human activity or artefact is either part of the solution or it is part of the problem.I've worried about the sustainability of consumer electronics f...
WiR IV with Johanna Austin, roboticist, helicopter pilot & techsupervixen
Andra Keay and Women In Robotics
14 Mar 2021
Watch Johanna Austin talk about her journey, make her own career path, and trailblazing a way in STEM!! Johanna Austin was the first female Robotics and Automation Research Engineer in Boeing's Melbou...
Eight lessons for robotics startups from NRI PI workshop
Silicon Valley Robotics
14 Mar 2021
Research is all about being the first, but commercialization is all about repeatability, not just many times but every single time. This was one of the key takeaways from the Transitioning Research Fr...
One robot on Mars is robotics, ten robots are automation
Andra Keay
02 Mar 2021
The difference between robotics and automation is almost nonexistent and yet has a huge difference in everything from trade shows, marketing, publications to academic conferences and journals. This we...
Robots4Humanity in next Society, Robots and Us
Silicon Valley Robotics
23 Feb 2021
Speakers in tonight's Society, Robots and Us at 6pm PST Tuesday Feb 23 include Henry Evans, mute quadriplegic and founder of Robots4Humanity and Aaron Edsinger, founder of Hello Robot. We'll also bein...
Introducing Eliza Kosoy; E-liza Dolls
Silicon Valley Robotics and Women In Robotics
18 Feb 2021
Eliza Kosoy is a Ph.D Student at UC Berkeley. She studied mathematics in college and then worked for Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum at MIT in his computational cognitive science lab. She then started on a Ph....
Women in Robotics Update: Andra Keay, Nguyen Sao Mai and Selin Alara Örnek
Andra Keay and Women In Robotics
02 Feb 2021
Here's a Women in Robotics Spotlight, where we share stories from women who are working on all sorts of interesting projects who haven’t yet been featured in our Annual Showcase. We hope these stori...
The future of robotics research: Is there room for debate?
Debates on the Future of Robotics Research
22 Jan 2021
By Brian Wang, Sarah Tang, Jaime Fernandez Fisac, Felix von Drigalski, Lee Clement, Matthew Giamou, Sylvia Herbert, Jonathan Kelly, Valentin Pertroukhin, and Florian Shkurti
As the field of robotic...
Women in Robotics Update: introducing our 2021 Board of Directors
Andra Keay and Women In Robotics
18 Jan 2021
Women in Robotics is a grassroots community involving women from across the globe. Our mission is supporting women working in robotics and women who would like to work in robotics. We formed an offici...
Women in Robotics Update: Melonee Wise, Maren Bennewitz, Alicia Casals
Sunita Pokharel and Women In Robotics
12 Jan 2021
Introducing the seventh post in our new series of Women in Robotics Updates, featuring Melonee Wise, Maren Bennewitz and Alicia Casals and from our first "25 women in robotics you need to know about...
Women in Robotics Update: Ecem Tuglan, Tuong Anh Ens, Sravanthi Kanchi, Kajal Gada, Dimitra Gkatzia
Sunita Pokharel and Women In Robotics
28 Dec 2020
Welcome to the first of our Women in Robotics Spotlights, where we share stories from women who haven’t yet been featured in our Annual Showcase but who are working on all sorts of interesting proje...
Women in Robotics Update: Ruzena Bajcsy and Radhika Nagpal
Sunita Pokharel and Women In Robotics
20 Dec 2020
Introducing the sixth post in our new series of Women in Robotics Updates, featuring Ruzena Bajcsy and Radhika Nagpal from our first "25 women in robotics you need to know about" list in 2013 and 2014...
Shaping the UK’s future with smart machines: Findings from four ThinkIns with academia, industry, policy, and the public
Sabine Hauert
18 Dec 2020
The UK Robotics Growth Partnership (RGP) aims to set the conditions for success to empower the UK to be a global leader in Robotics and Autonomous Systems whilst delivering a smarter, safer, more pros...
Women in Robotics Update: Robin Murphy, Ayanna Howard
Sunita Pokharel
13 Dec 2020
Introducing the fifth post in our new series of Women in Robotics Updates, featuring Robin Murphy and Ayanna Howard from our first "25 women in robotics you need to know about" list in 2013 and 2014. ...
Should robots be gendered? comments on Alan Winfield’s opinion piece
Silicon Valley Robotics and Andra Keay
10 Dec 2020
The gendering of robots is something I’ve found fascinating since I first started building robots out of legos with my brother. We all ascribe character to robots, consciously or not, even when we u...
Women in Robotics Update: Maja Mataric, Arianna Menciassi
Sunita Pokharel and Women In Robotics
06 Dec 2020
Introducing the second of our new series of Women in Robotics Updates, featuring Maja Mataric and Arianna Menciassi from our first "25 women in robotics you need to know about" list in 2013. Since we ...
Women in Robotics Update: Girls Of Steel
Sunita Pokharel and Women In Robotics
30 Nov 2020
"Girls of Steel Robotics (featured 2014) was founded in 2010 at Carnegie Mellon University’s Field Robotics Center as FRC Team 3504. The organization now serves multiple FIRST robotics teams offerin...
Women in Robotics Update: Elizabeth Croft, Helen Greiner, Heather Knight
"Fearless Girl should provide the spark to inspire more female engineers", writes Elizabeth Croft, Dean and Faculty of Engineering at Monash University.
“Girls are natural engineers, highly capab...
Women in Robotics Update: Sarah Bergbreiter, Aude Billard, Cynthia Breazeal
In spite of the amazing contributions of women in the field of robotics, it's still possible to attend robotics conferences or see panels that don't have a single female face. Let alone seeing people ...
Women in Robotics panel celebrating Ada Lovelace Day
Andra Keay
21 Oct 2020
https://youtu.be/NuN1fpdYYI4
We'd like to share the video from our 2020 Ada Lovelace Day celebration of Women in Robotics. The speakers were all on this year's list, last year's list, or nominated fo...
30 women in robotics you need to know about – 2020
Women In Robotics
13 Oct 2020
It’s Ada Lovelace Day and once again we’re delighted to introduce you to “30 women in robotics you need to know about”! From 13 year old Avye Couloute to Bala Krishnamurthy who worked alongsid...
Robot takes contact-free measurements of patients’ vital signs
MIT News
16 Sep 2020
By Anne Trafton
During the current coronavirus pandemic, one of the riskiest parts of a health care worker’s job is assessing people who have symptoms of Covid-19. Researchers from MIT, Boston Dyna...
Opportunities in DARPA SubT Challenge
Andra Keay
14 Jul 2020
Opportunities Still Available to Participate in the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge: Cave Circuit 2020 and Final Event 2021. Join us for an introduction of the DARPA Subterranean Challenge with Pr...
Robotics for Infectious Diseases Organization and other resources
Andra Keay
27 Jun 2020
In times of crisis, we all want to know where the robots are! And young roboticists just starting their careers, or simply thinking about robotics as a career, ask us ‘How can robotics help?’ and ...
Conversation on racism and robotics
Andra Keay
25 Jun 2020
Talking about racism and its impact on robotics and roboticists was the first conversation in our new monthly online discussion series “Society, Robots and Us” on last Tuesday of the month at 6pm ...
MIT gives soft robotic gripper better sense of touch and perception
Rachel Gordon | MIT News
02 Jun 2020
MIT researchers built a soft robotic gripper that uses embedded cameras and deep learning to enable high-resolution tactile sensing and “proprioception” (awareness of positions and movements of th...
Locus Robotics expanding into Europe with $40M Series D
Steve Crowe
02 Jun 2020
A group of LocusBots from autonomous mobile robot developer Locus Robotics. | Credit: Locus Robotics...
CES 2020: A smart city oasis
Oliver Mitchell
26 Jan 2020
Like the city that hosts the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) there is a lot of noise on the show floor. Sifting through the lights, sounds and people can be an arduous task even for the most experienc...
The 5G report card: Building today’s smart IoT ecosystem
Oliver Mitchell
07 Dec 2019
The elephant in the room loomed large two weeks ago at the inaugural Internet of Things Consortium (IoTC) Summit in New York City. Almost every presentation began apologetically with the refrain, R...
