Join us on Tuesday at 7pm Pacific for our next weekly discussion on COVID-19, robots and us. This week we’re focusing on disaster robotics, social robotics, telemedicine and human-robot interaction with special guests:

• 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
• Beau Ambur, Outreach, Design & Technology Lead for Kickstarter

Did you know that this week is also the start of the 15th annual International Conference on Human Robot Interaction on April 1st? Stay posted for more news about the program here and at HRI2020, also on Robohub.org

Plus you can now see last week’s discussion on the Silicon Valley Robotics youtube channel.

Our March 24 weekly discussion featured special guests: Gui Cavalcanti (Breeze Automation & Open Source Covid-19 Medical Supplies), Tra Vu (COO Ohmnilabs & Kambria), Alder Riley (ideastostuff & Helpful Engineering), Mark Martin (Director Industry/Workforce Development CCC), Prof Ken Goldberg (CITRIS People & Robots Lab). Moderated by Andra Keay (Silicon Valley Robotics) with help from Erin Pan (Silicon Valley Robotics) and Beau Ambur (Kickstarter).

Join us each week at “COVID-19, robots and us” on Tuesday at 7pm Pacific Time for more!