Heather Knight aka Marilyn Monrobot

Post date: Sep 12, 2014 10:18:57 PM

Heather Knight, better known as Marilyn Monrobot, grabbed national attention in 2011 when she landed on the Forbes list of 30 under 30 in science. The social roboticist has a MS in electric engineering and computer science from MIT and is currently conducting her doctoral research at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute while running Marilyn Monrobot Labs in New York, which creates socially intelligent robot performances and sensor-based electronic art. Heather’s work also includes: robotics and instrumentation at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, interactive installations with Syyn Labs, field applications and sensor design at Aldebaran Robotics, and she is an alumnus of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab.

Beyond the Forbes list, Heather gained some fame as a key designer behind the below OK Go video’s Rube Goldberg Machine through her work at Syyn.

She’s also spoken at TED conferences. Watch her 2010 talk on robotics and entertainment, two areas that she believes combined will attract more people to STEM.