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CAROL REILEY, ENGR ’07 (MS), CEO, DEEPMUSIC.AI Carol Reiley (a.k.a. the “Mother of Robots”) is a serialentrepreneur, AI roboticist, and artist. She is currently CEO of the nonprofit DeepMusic.ai, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a Guerlain Cosmetics brand ambassador.
She previously founded Drive.ai, which Apple acquired. Reiley is a pioneer in teleoperated and autonomous robot systems for surgery, space exploration, disaster rescue, and self-driving cars. She also founded Tinkerbelle Labs and Squishybotz. She is the author of Making a Splash, a children’s book on the first growth mindset, was the first female engineer on the cover of Make: magazine, and the youngest member of IEEE’s Robotics and Engineering Board. She earned her master’s degree in computer science from the Whiting School of Engineering, led a robot outreach event in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area, advocates for underrepresented groups in technology, and speaks out about bias in AI.
CAROL REILEY, ENGR ’07 (MS), CEO, DEEPMUSIC.AI Carol Reiley (a.k.a. the “Mother of Robots”) is a serialentrepreneur, AI roboticist, and artist. She is currently CEO of the nonprofit DeepMusic.ai, a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and a Guerlain Cosmetics brand ambassador.
She previously founded Drive.ai, which Apple acquired. Reiley is a pioneer in teleoperated and autonomous robot systems for surgery, space exploration, disaster rescue, and self-driving cars. She also founded Tinkerbelle Labs and Squishybotz. She is the author of Making a Splash, a children’s book on the first growth mindset, was the first female engineer on the cover of Make: magazine, and the youngest member of IEEE’s Robotics and Engineering Board. She earned her master’s degree in computer science from the Whiting School of Engineering, led a robot outreach event in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area, advocates for underrepresented groups in technology, and speaks out about bias in AI.
