For her, becoming involved in developing standards for robotics safety provided terrific networking opportunities. Nelson Shea lives by advice that is helpful to anyone: Get involved in trade organizations.
Yakoob sees a role for herself and her robots beyond manufacturing, including health care, hospitality and farming: “I would like to contribute toward applying robotics in assistive technologies, such as smart prosthetics, in improving the quality of life for the increasingly growing senior population and applying robotics and automation in enabling indoor farming, making healthy, affordable food available to all.” Roberta Nelson Shea “The skills required to be successful can be attained irrespective of what gender you are,” she said. “Since then, my fascination and curiosity have always steered me-through high school and beyond-in identifying and selecting subjects and courses that brought me closer and closer to understanding the workings of my childhood robotic heroes.” Having been in the field, she’s eager to dispel the thought that robotics and automation are fields only for men.
Who,” and by R2-D2 and C-3PO from the “Star Wars” movies. Yakoob was inspired to pursue a career in robotics and automation by the Daleks, an extraterrestrial race from the British television program “Dr. I believe that by focusing on Green IT, clean data centers, energy-efficient components, we can create positive-impact devices and make the world a better place.” Unfortunately, the first “positive-impact device” she built, a retail and hospitality robot named Heasy, lived a short life before a fire destroyed the business in October 2019. Therefore, it is our duty to build things that may balance that. As humans, by design, we have a negative impact on earth. Making the world better is a theme that permeates her thinking: “I strongly believe that as engineers, we have a moral obligation to change the world to make it a better place. “This was an interesting metaphor of how people are able to change the world and make it a better place by engineering new devices,” she said. Le Maître was inspired to become an engineer while reading “The Mysterious Island,” a Jules Verne tale of American Civil War escapees who used teamwork, scientific knowledge, engineering and perseverance to build a colony from scratch on an uncharted Pacific island. Because community building is so important, we are thrilled to see that Amy Elliott, Gillan Hawkes, Elena Messina, Roberta Nelson Shea and Nicole Renee Williams are members of SME. On behalf of humanity, the magazine thanks them for their hard work, sharp minds and true grit. They see robots and drones as Jills of all trades that serve as helpful companions in education, health care and aging, as “eyes” that open new worlds in ocean depths, as “positive-impact devices” and as what (when paired with other automation technology) can enable indoor farming and “sustain the things we care about.” The 20 women profiled here are helping create a better world. If there is a common thread found in the women Smart Manufacturing identified as making their mark in robotics and automation, it is a heightened awareness of the impact humans have on the planet without trying, as well as the positive impact we can have with concerted efforts. Yet another is helping close the skills gap in manufacturing. Another, in Stockholm, is working with the United Nations in disease and natural disaster response.
One co-founded a robot vacuum cleaner company and changed housework forever. One woman set up the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision-the world’s first such center-and then led efforts to create Australia’s first Robotics Roadmap.
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