News

• Nov. 2022: Selected as one of Fortune Magazine’s 2022 40 Under 40

• Oct. 2022: Delivered keynote at IROS 2022: Launching Socially-Aware Mobile Manipulation Robots in Hospitals

• Oct. 2022: Diligent Robotics featured on CNBC: Robot ‘nurse’ helps alleviate burnout among real nurses around the country

• Jun. 2022: Selected as one of Fast Company’s 2022 Queer 50

• Jan. 2022: Diligent Robotics featured in Nature: Robots rise to meet the challenge of caring for old people

• Dec. 2021: Diligent Robotics named one of Newsweek’s America's Greatest Disruptors: Medical Marvels

• Jun. 2021: Selected as one of Fast Company’s 2021 Queer 50

• Jun. 2021: Diligent Robotics named one of World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers

• Dec. 2020: Diligent Robotics featured in KXAN: Austin robot assists hospitals in the fight against COVID-19

• Oct. 2020: Delivered keynote at ROS World 2020: Accelerating Innovation with ROS: Lessons in Healthcare

• Mar. 2020: Article from IEEE Spectrum about Diligent Robotics: How Diligent’s Robots Are Making a Difference in Texas Hospitals

• Nov. 2019: Diligent Robotics named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Best Inventions

• Sep. 2019: EmTech MIT Conference Honoree Talk: Moxi, The First Step

• Jul. 2019: PC Mag interview about Diligent Robotics: When Nurses Are Busy, It's Moxi the Robot to the Rescue

• Jul. 2019: Diligent Robotics featured in Fast Company: A hospital introduced a robot to help nurses. They didn’t expect it to be so popular

• Jun. 2019: Selected as one of MIT Tech Review’s 2019 35 Innovators Under 35

• May 2019: Delivered keynote at the 10th Asian Leadership Conference (Asian Leadership Conference 2019)

• Sep. 2018: Follow-up article from IEEE Spectrum about Diligent Robotics trials: Moxi Prototype from Diligent Robotics Starts Helping Out in Hospitals

• Mar. 2018: Featured in Refinery29 for International Women’s Day: Top Women In Tech Name The Women Who Inspire Them

• Jan. 2018: Article from IEEE Spectrum about Diligent Robotics: Diligent Robotics Bringing Autonomous Mobile Manipulation to Hospitals.

• Jan. 2018: Diligent Robotics featured in Wall Street Journal. Investors Back Robotics for Health, Companionship.

• Jan. 2018: Full-time at Diligent Robotics, Inc.

• Dec. 2017: Successfully defended my PhD Thesis titled "Teaching Robots about Human Environments".

• Aug. 2017: Selected as a funded participant for the Rising Stars in EECS Workshop, a highly competitive workshop for women pursuing academic careers.

• Sept. 2017: Co-organized the Workshop on Synergies Between Learning and Interaction at IROS'17 in Vancouver, BC.

• Apr. 2017: Featured in Georgia Tech's article about the Women of Robotics.

• Apr. 2017: Featured in Georgia Tech's article about my research: Vivian Chu Working to Provide Robots Basic Building Blocks for Cognition.

• Mar. 2017: Co-organized the symposium on "Interactive Multisensory Object Perception for Embodied Agents" at AAAI Spring Symposium.

• Mar. 2017: Georgia Tech's article about the Robohub selection: Grad Student Vivian Chu Named One of the "25 Women In Robotics You Need to Know About" in 2016.

• Jan. 2017: Research on robot exploration for object affordance learning was accepted into IJRR.

• Oct. 2016: Selected as one of Robohub's 25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2016.

• Jun. 2016: Officially took leave of absence to work at Diligent Droids, LLC.

• Jun. 2016: Successfully proposed my PhD thesis topic.

• Apr. 2016: Presented HAPTICS paper on Haptic Affordances in Philadelphia, PA.

• Mar. 2016: Presented HRI paper on Human-Guided Robot Self-Exploration in Christchurch, New Zealand. Nominated for "Best Technical Advance in HRI".

• May 2015: Started summer internship at Google[x] working with Dr. Leila Takayama.

• Jan. 2015: RAS journal article on haptic adjectives officially published.

• Jan. 2015: AAAI Robotics Fellow - one of twelve selected out of 72 students.

• Sept. 2014: Presented IROS paper on Contingency Detection in Chicago.

• Sept. 2014: Awarded Google's Anita Borg Scholarship.

• Aug. 2013: Started at Georgia Tech's Robotics PhD Program.

• Jun. 2013: Started summer internship at Honda Research Institute.

• May 2013: IEEE Spectrum article about my research on Haptic Adjectives. Finally: Robots Learn What 'Squishy' Really Means.

• May 2013: ICRA paper on Haptic Adjectives won Best Cognitive Robotics Paper.

• May 2013: Received my MS in Robotics from University of Pennsylvania.

• Aug. 2011: Left IBM to start my MS in Robotics at Penn.

• Aug. 2009: Started working at IBM Almaden Research.

• May 2009: Received my BS in EECS from University of California, Berkeley.