Dr Nicole Lee Robinson is the CEO of Lyro Robotics. Lyro Robotics is a robotics company that builds and deploys software for intelligent pick and pack systems using computer vision, deep learning and robotic systems. Prior to co-founding Lyro Robotics, her PhD involved deploying humanoid robots into industry spaces and finding new ways to improve human-robot teamwork. She has also been involved in fundamental and applied scientific research in academia for over 10 years. She is an Associate Investigator of Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF) and her role is to use robotics to strengthen interdisciplinary science to secure Antarctica as a natural reserve. She is an Advisor to Monash Robogals, which aims to teach robotics to high-school students and to inspire greater participation by women in STEM. She was also named Women in AI’s APAC Grand Winner for 2024.

Simon Fraser University

Dr. Angelica Lim is the Director of the Rosie Lab, and an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU). Previously, she led the Emotion and Expressivity teams for the Pepper humanoid robot at SoftBank Robotics in Paris. She received her B.Sc. in Computing Science with Artificial Intelligence Specialization from SFU and a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science (Intelligence Science) from Kyoto University, Japan. She and her team have received Best paper in Entertainment Robotics and Cognitive Robotics Awards at IROS 2022 and 2011, and Best Demo and LBR at HRI 2023 and 2021. She has been featured on the BBC, TEDx, hosted a TV documentary on robotics, and was recently featured in Forbes 20 Leading Women in AI. Her research interests include human-robot interaction, multimodal machine learning, and affective computing.

San Francisco State University

Kyoto University

Harvard University

University of Northern British Columbia

PAL Robotics

Amazon

Peerbots

Hello Robot

Semio