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About this Event
Every week at 7pm on Tuesdays we speak to experts from the robotics and health community. Your eventbrite ticket should take you directly to the online discussion (hit play) but if not please go to https://kickstarter.zoom.us/j/802977005
Our special guest speakers for March 31 are focusing on disaster robotics, social robotics, telemedicine and human-robot interaction:
Robin Murphy, Founder of the field of Disaster Robotics and Raytheon Professor at Texas A&M University
Ross Mead, Founder of Semio and VP of AI LA
Wendy Ju, Interaction design expert at Cornell Tech
Cory Kidd, Founder of Catalia Health, telemedicine robots
Ken Goldberg, Director of CITRIS People and Robots Initiative
Rachel Sadd, Executive Director of Ace Monster Toys and founder of the Bay Area Mask Making Project
Jessica Armstrong, Mechanical Engineer at SuitX and Bay Area coordinator for Open Source Covid Medical Supplies
And the crew:
Andra Keay, Director of Silicon Valley Robotics and founder of Women in Robotics
Erin Pan, Associate at Silicon Valley Robotics, looking for autonomous vehicle opportunities, will be coordinating audience questions
Beau Ambur, Outreach, Design & Technology Lead for Kickstarter will be coordinating zoom for us
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Open Source COVID-19 Medical Supplies Group is a rapidly growing Facebook group formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions.
Helpful Engineering is another rapidly growing global network created to design, source and execute projects that can help people suffering from the COVID-19 crisis worldwide.
Cloud Robotics, Deep Learning, Human-Centric Automation, and Bio-Inspired Robotics are among the primary research themes of the CITRIS People and Robots Initiative that focuses on new theory, benchmarks, software, and approaches that address challenges in the interest of society.
Silicon Valley Robotics is a non-profit industry association supporting innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. With more than 50 robotics research labs, and over 500 robotics startups, the Silicon Valley/SF Bay Area region is the most active robotics cluster in the world.
