HOW TO SLAM THE
GENDER GAPS OF WOMENIN ROBOTICS?
Belén Torres

Overview

AgendaProblemStrategies
ImpactConclusions

Overview
Important contributions

mid-1800s

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Ada Lovelace

Hedy
LamarrGrace
HopperSister Mary
KennethKellerFrances
Elizabeth
Allen

Site: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chicas_en_Tecnolog%C3%ADa#/media/File:Ada_Lovelace_en_Grandes_Mujeres_de_Chicas_en_Tecnolog%C3%ADa_01.jpg

Site: https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2022/05/10/ditch-the-chalk-tessa-lausdusty-robotics-raises-45-million-to-automate-construction-plans/?sh=461f7fa57f66

Site: https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/robotics/drones-for-good/

Women in ROS and Gazebo

Katherine Scott

Developer Advocate at Open Robotics

Louise Poubel

Florencia Grosso

Simulation Lead at Zipline

Manager at Ekumen

Lola Segura

Software developer at Ekumen

ProblemsreirrabsuoicssneoccindUujerpdna

CREATING a robot to perform security tasks masculine, thesame robot programmed for care should be more femenine

ASSUMING that the man on your robotics team is theleaderHIRING committee favors male candidates over female
candidates with similar experience

Learned attitudes or stereotypes that exist in our subconscious and can involutarily affect the way we THINK and ACTDiversity Wins

+100
Companies

Diversity
generates+15
New
technologies
arehigher
profitability,Countries
often
developedwith
lower
turnover andbetterbias
personal
satisfaction

Firm: McKinsey Year: 2019+25%
profit-earning
capacity

Bias in algorithms

Joy Buolamwini,computer scientist and digital activist based at the MIT Media Lab

What can we do to bridge the gap?

We should use SLAM's technique

MappingLocating

To find, identify and bridge theGAPS

Some

STEM INITIATIVESROBOTEAM, Buenos Aires Argentina
The STEAM Youth and Community
Conference, San Diego, USA
RoboCup@Home Education National,regional, international event
One-Day Summer Camp for Female HighSchool Students, New Jersey, UnitedStates
IoT-based Temperature Monitoring
system for Local Charcoal ClayKiln,
Northern Thailand , Thailand

STEM
INITIATIVE

in Latin America
Roboteam is an initiative carried out by ateam of volunteers within the frameworkof IEEE WIE Argentina with the purpose ofencouraging scientific-technologicalvocations in children and adolescentsthrough free workshops.

Site: https://ewh.ieee.org/r9/argentina/roboteam/index.html

ROS Metrics
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visitors at July2021

New users

Site: wiki.ros.org Source: Google Analytics Yoy Growth: -1.9%

9260 +25%
number ofpapers citing:ROS

ROS Users of the world

Site: http://metrorobots.com/rosmap.html

Equity Compass

Site: http://yestem.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021-YESTEM-Insight-1-Equity-Compass-for-ISL-updated-Sept-2021.pdf

MAKE AN
IMPACT
1- Supporting skills development forunderrepresented talent
2- Supporting and financing forcompanies and entrepreneurs
3- Promoting regulation

Let's use robotics to improve the world, tobuild a more inclusive and diverse future andto avoid further reinforcing and continuing
gapsYou can find more STEM iniciatives to support

Scan me#ROSTeamBelén Torres@kurepa82
anahi-belen-torres

belen.torres@ekumenlabs.com

https://www.ekumenlabs.com/

The girl who dreamed of robots

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