Ayanna Howard

Just call her The Bionic Woman! Dr. Howard is a robotics research engineer in the Telerobotics Research and Applications Group for the Jet Propulsion Labs. Her job is to use artificial intelligence (AI) to make robots "smarter." With improved AI, robots can travel into space and other hazardous locations, such as earthquake-damaged areas. She is currently working on a rover for use on Mars.

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