When it comes to gender ratio, engineering is one of the most highly imbalanced fields around. Not only are few women engineers working today, far fewer female college students are entering science and technology-related fields compared to their male colleagues. See also: Why So Few Women Are Studying Computer Science And one of the fields where women are most strongly outnumbered is one that most needs diverse perspectives: robotics. Last Sunday was International Women’s Day, an event for celebrating the progress women have made toward gender equality. It seemed like a good moment to speak with some of the world’s leading female roboticists about their experiences. See also: History's Female Programmers Will No Longer Be Forgotten Melonee Wise: “It’s a people issue” Melonee Wise Wise is the CEO of Fetch Robotics and a veteran roboticist. Her contributions to platforms like Turtlebot and humanoid robots like PR2 and UBR-1 precede her. Currently, her company is working on a pair of... - Web2024