Robotics Medal and Rising Star winners reflect on their work, advancing women in robotics

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Gartner predicts fewer than 20 companies will deploy humanoids at scale by 2028 In her almost 30 years working on robotics in academia, Matarić has pioneered the field of socially assistive robotics (SARs) and conducted foundational work in multi-robot coordination and human-robot interaction. She earned the Robotics Medal for her work with SARs and for making advancements to the field of distributed robots and learning in human-robot systems.

Matarić is currently the Chaired and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC).