Andra Keay

From the 2014 Solid Conference: Robotics is an emerging technology with a lot of confusion. As a student of human-robot culture and now the manager of the tech cluster for robotics in Silicon Valley, Andra Keay sees both the popular culture and the real world of research, startups and industry. Sometimes there is a gaping chasm between them. Andra's role is to help robotics cross that chasm, and on the way, perhaps also to help robotics to be more useful for more people.

About Andra Keay (Silicon Valley Robotics)
Andra Keay is a human systems engineer, Founder of Robot Launchpad, Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics and CoFounder of Robot Garden, a new robotics hackerspace. Andra is also Treasurer of the Robots Association and contributor to Robohub, the global site for news and views on robotics. She obtained her MA in Human-Robot Culture/Cultural Theory at the University of Sydney, Australia in 2011, building on a background as a robot hobbyist, STEM educator and film-maker.

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Andra Keay from Silicon Valley Robotics talks about opportunities and challenges for startups in robotics, and what is going on in the robotics community.

In episode 6 of Robots in Depth, Andra Keay talks to our host Per Sjoborg about how her organization Silicon Valley Robotics was formed and what they do. One example of networking events they organize is the annual Robot Block Party.

Andra also shares her views on the areas of robotics where we will see significant developments in the near future. Further, Andra and Per discuss how developments in for example agricultural robotics can feed improvements in other industries, including home robots.

Andra Keay is director at Silicon Valley Robotics and founder of Robot Launchpad.

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