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WOMEN IN ENGINEERING

The Integration of Diversity
with Robotics Start-Ups
By Chinwe Ekenna and Lydia Tapia

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o develop products that resonate
with all potential customers,
new robotics start-ups are embracing competence and excellence while promoting diversity and
inclusiveness. Although sometimes
accused of having competing priorities,
groundbreaking roboticists have used
best practices to emphasize all of these
priorities to ensure the market ubiquity
of the cutting-edge systems they are
developing. We interviewed some of
these groundbreakers (see Figure 1), the
founders of three robotics venture startups, Mayfield Robotics, Root Robotics,
and Zyrobotics, for IEEE Robotics and
Automation Magazine (RAM).
Mayfield Robotics is the maker of
Kuri, the world's most adorable home
robot. Born out of the Bosch Start-Up
Platform, the company is a wholly
owned subsidiary of Robert Bosch North
America Corporation.
Root Robotics is an educational platform that teaches children to program,
even as the robot drives on whiteboards
with magnet wheels, senses colors, and
draws (see Figure 2). Root Robotics
provides a fun platform that includes
programming challenges to learn logic
through art and games.
Zyrobotics produces children's educational products that help change
how kids learn, specifically taking into
consideration the limitations that
children with disabilities could face
(see Figure 3). Zyrobotics has recently

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Figure 1. The start-up cofounders (clockwise from upper left): Radhika Nagpal (Root
Robotics); Ayanna Howard (Zyrobotics); and Stephanie Lee, Kaijen Hsiao, and Sarah
Osentoski (Mayfield Robotics).

Figure 2. Some of the Root Robotics tools for teaching programming.

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