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50 women in robotics you need to know about 2023
Andra Keay and Women In Robotics
04 Oct 2023
Celebrating International Women in Robotics Day October 4th.
50 women in robotics you need to know about 2022
Our Women in Robotics list turns 10 this year and we are delighted to introduce you to another amazing "50 women in robotics you need to know about" as we also celebrate Ada Lovelace Day. We have now profiled more than 300 women AND non-binary people making important contributions to robotics since the list began in 2013.
It’s time to update 19th century terms for 21st century technology
Andra Keay and Women In Robotics
04 Jun 2022
Unmanned and master/slave are two terms that are offensive to many in the community. Such terms may once have been accepted by society, but not any longer, and we are pleased to see many organizations starting to use alternative terms.
Interview with Andrea Thomaz (co-founder of Diligent Robotics): socially intelligent automation solutions for hospitals
Sonia Roberts and Women In Robotics
16 Apr 2022
We sat down with Dr. Thomaz to talk about Moxi, how to manage people’s expectations about robots, and advice for young people and women in robotics.
Careers in robotics: Should you get a PhD or go into industry?
Sonia Roberts and Women In Robotics
02 Apr 2022
So you are considering a PhD in robotics! Before you decide to apply, here are some things to consider.
Careers in robotics: What is a robotics PhD?
Sonia Roberts and Women In Robotics
26 Mar 2022
This post will take you through the overall life cycle of a PhD in the American educational system, and is intended as a basic overview for anyone unfamiliar with the process, whether they are considering a PhD or have a loved one who is currently in a PhD program and just want to learn more about what they are doing.
What Women in Robotics achieved in 2021 and what’s coming next in 2022
It’s been a hard year for women all over the world, and I’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to Women in Robotics in 2021.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2016
Editor's note:
In celebration of International Women's Day, we're reposting our latest '25 Women in Robotics You Need to Know About' list. Over the last four years, Robohub has featured 100 inspir...
25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2015
Ada Lovelace was the world’s first computer programmer, and heralded symbolic logic by demonstrating future applications for the universal computing machine that Charles Babbage proposed. She was e...
Five women robotics experts from Silicon Valley share their stories
Andra Keay
29 Apr 2015
Melonee Wise, Erin Rapacki, Katherine Scott, Steffi Paepcke, Dale Bergman. What do these five women have in common? Aside from robotics, not much - they are all role models in robotics in quite dif...
Steffi Paepcke on Robots, women and design: Opportunities abound
Open Source Robotics Foundation
29 Apr 2015
This piece was written by Steffi Paepcke as a precursor to the Silicon Valley Robotics panel titled “Women in Robotics: Challenge or Opportunity?”
Let me get the basic statistics out of t...
Talking Machines: Women in Machine Learning (WiML), with Hanna Wallach
Talking Machines
12 Feb 2015
In episode four we talk with Hanna Wallach, of Microsoft Research. She's also a professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst and one of the founders of Women ...
The story of Atlas, FRC Team #3504 Girls of Steel
Molly Urbina
09 Jan 2015
I'm Molly Urbina, a member of the FIRST Team #3504, Girls of Steel. Every year our team makes a comic strip about the past year's robot to show other girls just how much fun competing in FIRST can be....
CompuGirls: Young women have role to play in technology field
the National Science Foundation (NSF)
16 Dec 2014
If one of the keys to building a future technology workforce is finding new ways to engage women and minorities in computer science, giving teenage girls an understanding of what the field is, and how...
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Engaging Girls in Robotics, with Hannah and Rachael Tipperman, Ross Mead and Elizabeth Croft
AJung Moon
17 Oct 2014
Earlier this year, the Robots Podcast team came across a story about two 17 year old twin sisters who started their own robotics outreach group. The story about the Tipperman sisters got us curious. W...
25 women in robotics you need to know about (2014)
Just last week at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella gave women some questionable career advice: "It's not really about asking for the raise, but knowing...
Women in engineering at IROS 2014
Andra Keay
16 Sep 2014
[tweetquote]Shame that the missing engineering hero on the cover of IEEE Spectrum's July issue looks like superMAN[/tweetquote], because the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) lunch at IROS 2014 was a su...
25 women in robotics you need to know about (2013)
In celebration of Ada Lovelace Day, we've compiled a short list of some women in robotics that everyone should know about. There are so many many more that we're already looking forward to featuring t...
Why we didn’t plan for Women’s Day
Sabine Hauert
08 Mar 2013
International Women's Day crept up this year, and no one on our team planned for it. As it turned out, we didn't need to. Making STEM fields attractive for women, giving them a voice, and helping them...
Lynn Urbina on FIRST, Watson and the Girls of Steel
Hallie Siegel and Lynn Urbina
08 Mar 2013
A high school student by day and a power-tool-toting Maker by night, Lynn Urbina is a member of the Girls of Steel - an all-girl competitive robotics team located in Pittsburg, PA that's on a mission ...
