Science writing

Robohub

Robohub publishes summaries of science and engineering articles relevant to robotics written for the general public. Sonia has written both about her research and about the robotics PhD process.

Interview with Andrea Thomaz: Socially intelligent automation solutions for hospitals — Sonia Roberts and Women in Robotics

Careers in Robotics: Should you get a PhD or go into industry? — Sonia Roberts and Women in Robotics

Careers in Robotics: What is a PhD? — Sonia Roberts and Women in Robotics

Evolving Swimming Robots to Study Origins of Extinct Vertebrates — Sonia Roberts, Jonathan Hirokawa, Marianne Porter, Andres Gutierrez, and John H. Long

Penn Science Policy and Diplomacy Group Blog

The PSPDG Blog is run by graduate students in STEM programs at the University of Pennsylvania. Since fall 2020, it has followed a format developed by Sonia: Blog team members choose a general topic, such as confirmation bias or public funding of scientific research, and then each team member seeks the perspective of researchers in different fields on that topic.

What Does It Mean To Be Intelligent? — Sanjana Hemdev & Sonia Roberts

Bias in Machine Learning Models — Sonia Roberts

Distillations

This blog run by the Science History Institute features information about all kinds of science and technology written for the general public.

Thinking On Your Feet — Or With Them — Sonia Roberts