Today’s fantastic Seattle Times piece “The UW’s Yoky Matsuoka is leading the quest for robotics that take orders from the brain” highlights Yoky’s life and background, her neurobotics research focused on helping people with disabilities live fuller lives, her mentoring of students and the desire to encourage female participation in the sciences, her leadership in creating the Pacific Northwest Center for Neural Engineering, and her non-profit efforts with the goal to bring professional women and engineering students together to produce custom devices for people with various disabilities.

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