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Ada-Rhodes Short
Alma materOregon State University
Scientific career
Fieldsmechatronics
InstitutionsSphero, Lora DiCarlo
Thesis
Doctoral advisorBryony DuPont

Ada-Rhodes Short is an American mechatronic design engineer and transgender rights activist. She is the co-host of the podcast Totally Trans: Searching for the Trans Canon alongside writer Henry Giardina.[1] She is a co-creator of Osé, a hands-free device for blended orgasms, which won a 2019 CES Innovation Award in the robotics and drones category.

Education and activism

In 2011, Short attended Baylor University and attempted to gain recognition for a club to discuss sexuality and combat homophobia.[2] This group became Gamma Alpha Upsilon, Baylor’s unofficial LGBTQ student organization.[3] Short completed her PhD at Oregon State University under Bryony DuPont, publishing a dissertation on building a computationally cognitive agent that can handle black swan events.[4] In 2018, Short delivered a speech at the Corvallis Women's March on food instability and housing insecurity in the transgender community.[5] She was the recipient of the 2019 Soroptimists Corvallis Ruby Award for women who have worked to improve the lives of women and girls.[6]

Career

In 2016, Short worked at Sphero and co-developed a patented multi-body self-propelled device that was used in the Star Wars BB-8 Robot toy.[7] She was hired by Lora DiCarlo, a sexual technology company, in 2018.[8] While at Lora DiCarlo, Short co-developed the Osé, a hands-free device for blended orgasms.[9] The Osé won a 2019 CES Innovation Award in the robotics and drones category.[10] The award was rescinded due to a CES policy forbidding indecent companies from exhibiting on the show floor, but later reinstated after CES organizers were accused of sexism.[11][12]

Selected works

  • Hemphill, Ryan, Kevyn Young, Maxwell Harris, Adam Short, and Douglas L. Van Bossuyt. "Hybrid Additive Manufacturing Method."
  • Short, Adam R., and Douglas Lee Van Bossuyt. "Rerouting failure flows using logic blocks in functional models for improved system robustness: failure flow decision functions." In DS 80-6 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 15) Vol 6: Design Methods and Tools-Part 2 Milan, Italy, 27-30.07. 15, pp. 031-040. 2015.
  • Short, Ada-Rhodes, Ann D. Lai, and Douglas L. Van Bossuyt. "Conceptual design of sacrificial sub-systems: failure flow decision functions." Research in Engineering Design 29, no. 1 (2018): 23-38.
  • Short, Adam R., and Douglas L. Van Bossuyt. "Risk attitude informed route planning in a simulated planetary rover." In International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, vol. 57052, p. V01BT02A048. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015.

References

  1. ^ Short, Ada-Rhodes; Giardina, Henry. "Totally Trans: Searching for the Trans Canon". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  2. ^ Eckholm, Erik (18 April 2011). "Even on Religious Campuses, Students Fight for Gay Identity". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  3. ^ Howard, Meredith (6 October 2020). "LGBTQ community fights for rights at Baylor, in Waco". Baylor Lariat. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  4. ^ Short, Ada-Rhodes. "Autonomous Decision Making Facing Uncertainty, Risk, and Complexity". Oregon State University. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  5. ^ Smith, TIffani. "Thousands marched through Corvallis in commemoration of Women's March". The Daily Barometer. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  6. ^ Short, Ada-Rhodes (31 May 2019). "Soroptimists International Corvallis, Ruby Award Speech". Ada-Rhodes Short, PhD. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  7. ^ Clarke, David; Webster, Douglas; Nutting, Judd; Keeney-Ritchie, Miles; Short, Adam; MacGregor, Ross. "Multi-body self propelled device with magnetic yaw control". Google Patents. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  8. ^ "Lora DiCarlo Hires PhD Robotics Engineer Dr. Ada-Rhodes Short". BioSpace. Lora DiCarlo. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  9. ^ Lorenzo, Doreen (23 May 2019). "The problem with aspirational design (and what designers should do instead)". Fast Company. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  10. ^ Safronova, Valeriya (18 January 2019). "What's So 'Indecent' About Female Pleasure?". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  11. ^ Haddock, Lora (17 January 2019). "Our robotic pleasure tech won a big award. Then they took it away". The Washington Post. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
  12. ^ Zraick, Karen (9 May 2019). "Sex Toy Award Is Restored by Trade Show After an Outcry Over Sexism". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 May 2021.


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