Grace Brown
In 2021, Grace Brown won Vogue's first Future Innovators competition with her humanoid robot, Abi. Now, she's the CEO and co-founder of a robotics and AI startup Andromeda Robotics.
I did not expect us to win,” Grace Brown admits. The robotics engineer is disarmingly humble about her success in Vogue's 2021 Future Innovators competition. “When we got into the top five, I remember going to my photo shoot thinking, ‘Oh my god, I wonder if I'm going to get to meet the winner.'”
It was while doing a Bachelor of Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at the University of Melbourne that Brown started toying with the idea of creating Abi, a humanoid robot with the capacity for socialisation, although she
