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Finding the Robotics Muse: Natalia Ogorelysheva at Digital Women* Day Nürnberg

Natalia Ogorelysheva presenting at the Digital Women* Day in Nuremberg © Blanca Elena Melendez del Castillo
Last week, Natalia Ogorelysheva delivered an interactive session at the Digital Women* Day Nürnberg - part of the Nürnberg Digital Festival - taking her audience on a simulated journey through an ordinary day to show that the robotics muse is everywhere, if you keep your eyes and mind open.

Last week, Natalia Ogorelysheva took the stage at the Digital Women* Day Nürnberg, a part of the Nürnberg Digital Festival [1], one of the largest community-driven events on digitalisation and technology in the Nuremberg metropolitan region, bringing together over 240 events across ten days. The Digital Women* Day, organised by Coworking Nürnberg [2], the Digital Women* Community and She'n IT, is a dedicated space for FLINTA* individuals in the IT and digital sector - built around real exchange, visibility and connection across industries and experience levels.

Natalia delivered an interactive session titled "The Robotics Muse - and How to Find It" [3], inviting the audience on a simulated journey through an ordinary day - with one twist: everywhere they looked, robots were already there.

The group moved through a logistics centre and a production hall, encountering different types of robotic systems along the way. They paused for a pizza prepared by a food robot, and watched rescue robots responding to a fire. The session then turned to Human-Machine Interaction and one of its most persistent challenges: the human tendency to disrupt automation - by ignoring instructions, bypassing systems, or simply doing things their own way. This opened into a broader conversation about diversity in robotics development, and why homogeneous teams create blind spots that only become visible when something goes wrong.

The journey continued: the group faced a choice between an autonomous car and an autonomous bus on the way home, prompting a discussion about competitive autonomous driving and performance exploration. A supermarket visit followed, where a robotic manipulator based solution prepared their food. Back home, they watered plants monitored by an automated system, and ended the evening watching robots play football, perform a dance routine, and attempt ballet.

The conclusion was clear: the robotics muse is everywhere. You only have to keep your eyes and mind open.

The audience had a good laugh along the way - which, as any researcher who has watched a robot attempt ballet knows, is entirely appropriate.

As a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Computer Science at TU Dortmund University researching Safety and Anomaly Management in Multi-Robot Systems, and as a member of the Diversity Commission of the faculty, Natalia is committed to making robotics and Deep Tech accessible - for FLINTA individuals, migrants, parents and career changers. The Digital Women* Day was a natural stage for exactly that mission.

[1] https://nuernberg.digital 
[2] https://coworking-nuernberg.de 
[3] https://nuernberg.digital/de/events/2026/digital-women-day-die-robotics-muse-und-wie-man-sie-findet 

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