Women's Role in Robotics
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Women make up less than 25 percent of graduate students in engineering and computer sciences, according to the National Science Foundation, far below levels in biological and social sciences where women are about 50 percent of graduate enrollment.
But rescue robot engineer Robin Murphy says there is a huge role for women in tech.
Murphy sees rescue robotics and the overall field of artificial intelligence--a branch of computer science that designs machines to "think for themselves"--as providing a high level of challenge, creativity, and service, especially for women.
"Where else do you find such a wide open new field of technological challenges that will have a profound societal impact?" said Murphy. "Where you will make a huge difference? Everything you do is new. I also think it requires a woman's touch," she said, "a better sensitivity, to really put people first in designing rescue robots."
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But rescue robot engineer Robin Murphy says there is a huge role for women in tech.
Murphy sees rescue robotics and the overall field of artificial intelligence--a branch of computer science that designs machines to "think for themselves"--as providing a high level of challenge, creativity, and service, especially for women.
"Where else do you find such a wide open new field of technological challenges that will have a profound societal impact?" said Murphy. "Where you will make a huge difference? Everything you do is new. I also think it requires a woman's touch," she said, "a better sensitivity, to really put people first in designing rescue robots."
Read the full story at Women's eNews http://womensenews.org/story/women-in-science/100514/engineer-says-robotics-can-...
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