{"id":444,"date":"2018-11-12T12:02:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T12:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=444"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:20:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T14:20:27","slug":"old-and-new-generations-of-roboticists-come-together-at-bristol-women-in-robotics-meet-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/old-and-new-generations-of-roboticists-come-together-at-bristol-women-in-robotics-meet-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Old and new generations of roboticists come together at Bristol Women in Robotics meet-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This is a guest post by <a href=\"https:\/\/people.uwe.ac.uk\/Person\/AntoniaTzemanaki\">Dr Antonia Tzemanaki<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brl.ac.uk\">Bristol Robotics Laboratory<\/a>, who coordinates the Bristol <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/women-in-robotics-bristol-meet-up-8-november\/\">Women in Robotics<\/a> group.\u00a0Women in Robotics Bristol\/South West is part of a global professional network for women in robotics, such as our very own <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/women-like-me-launch-event-becoming-a-leader-in-engineering\/\">Women Like Me<\/a> engineer <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/uwe-phd-student-pavlina-theodosiou-kicks-off-women-like-me-at-engine-shed\/\">Pavlina Theodosiou<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em><em>and women who want to be. They promote the visibility of women in robotics.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The most recent meet-up of the Bristol <a href=\"https:\/\/svrobo.org\/women-in-robotics\/\">Women in Robotics<\/a> group took place on Thursday 8<sup>th<\/sup> November 2018. 14 women attended, including staff from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwe.ac.uk\">UWE Bristol<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bristol.ac.uk\">University of Bristol<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/openbionics.com\/\">OpenBionics<\/a> as well as new MSc and PhD students. It was a great mix between older and newer generations of roboticists and topics included internships, exchanging help on application writing and discussing future collaborations among others.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-369 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/WIR_banner-300x100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/WIR_banner-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/WIR_banner-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/WIR_banner.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>The next meetup will take place in the next couple of months, make sure to subscribe to our <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BristolWomenInRobotics\">emailing list<\/a> if you are interested and join our <a href=\"https:\/\/svrobo.org\/women-in-robotics\/\">Slack channel<\/a>. Ideas for events are always welcome!<\/p>\n<p>You can also follow Bristol Women in Robotics on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WirBristol\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a guest post by Dr Antonia Tzemanaki from the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, who coordinates the Bristol Women in Robotics group.\u00a0Women in Robotics Bristol\/South West is part of a global professional network for women in robotics, such as our very own Women Like Me engineer Pavlina Theodosiou,\u00a0and women who want to be. They promote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/old-and-new-generations-of-roboticists-come-together-at-bristol-women-in-robotics-meet-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Old and new generations of roboticists come together at Bristol Women in Robotics meet-up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,52,15,22],"tags":[80,46,30,62,32],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bristol-robotics-laboratory","category-engineering-our-future-people","category-events","category-women-like-me","tag-antonia-tzemanaki","tag-bristol-robotics-laboratory","tag-diversity","tag-pavlina-theodosiou","tag-women-in-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}