It’s time to replace nineteenth century phrases for twenty first century know-how

Unmanned and grasp/slave are two phrases which might be offensive to many locally. Such phrases might as soon as have been accepted by society, however not any longer, and we’re happy to see many organizations beginning to use different phrases.

We name on you in 2022 to take away phrases with unfavorable connotations, like those listed beneath, from all supplies, course descriptions, division names, merchandise, kinds, studies or articles. The profit to you is in broadening your enchantment to all of the neighborhood members who discover these phrases, if not outrightly offensive, then in any case old school and consultant of a mindset that has not engaged meaningfully with creating inclusive or fashionable robotics.

Girls in Robotics has taken the lead in curating a listing of greatest practices in inclusive terminology, in session with different teams, and now we want to share the primary draft of “Terminology for twenty first Century Technologists” for remark. To this point we’ve thought of gender, ethnicity and a few incapacity points. Our purpose is to create a complete listing of terminology, which may undergo an replace course of periodically, simply as requirements do. There’s clearly just a little extra work to be carried out and we wish to embrace sections on ‘the best way to retire phrases’, ‘the best way to implement modifications constructively’ and extra details about the method. That is the place you may assist us.

Please ship feedback in response to the primary draft by June 28 2022 to studies@womeninrobotics.org