Stories of Women in Robotics

• Duration:Temporary
• Location:Whitten Featured Object Case

(date) 3/3/2026–3/29/2026

What do you think of when you think of a robot? Perhaps you think of robot servers at a restaurant or robots that build cars in a factory. Maybe you think of your robot vacuum that can drive by itself or that drone you saw online delivering someone’s food. Whatever it is that pops into your head, it wouldn’t exist without women. From the code that makes robots go, to the WiFi and Bluetooth that lets them communicate with you, the biggest rockets you can imagine to the smallest toy robots, women have played a crucial role in the development of our modern robotic world.

Join us in exploring and celebrating the women who paved the road to robotics, changing how we interact with robotics.

This exhibit is developed by Ctrl-Z, Champaign-Urbana area high school FIRST Robotics Competition Team 4096.