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# Introducing Eliza Kosoy; E-liza Dolls
- URL: https://goodoil.news/introducing-eliza-kosoy-e-liza-dolls/
- Published: 2021-03-02T01:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-03-01T07:48:12.000Z
- Author: Guest Post
- Tags: Feminism, Technology, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 02:14

**[Silicon Valley Robotics](https://robohub.org/author/svrobo/?ref=goodoil.news)**  
**[Women In Robotics](https://robohub.org/author/womeninrobotics/?ref=goodoil.news)**  
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[**Eliza Kosoy**](https://www.elizadolls.com/our-story?ref=goodoil.news) is a Ph.D Student at UC Berkeley. She studied mathematics in college and then worked for Prof. Joshua Tenenbaum at MIT in his computational cognitive science lab. She then started on a Ph.D at UC Berkeley working with Professor Alison Gopnik in 2018\. She is most proud of receiving funding and winning an innovation prize that catalyzed her business! Her startup is called **[E-liza Dolls](http://www.elizadolls.com/?ref=goodoil.news)**. They are 18’’ electronic “liza” dolls that introduce young girls to coding and hardware in a fun way!

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/e-liza-dolls_deck-10_2020.jpg)

She chose this topic because as a woman in STEM she couldn’t help but feel the gender and racial divide and discrepancies in the hard sciences. With her background in child development, it only made sense that it’s best to expose children to these concepts early on so they will be embedded into their hypothesis space as they develop. The hardest challenge for her is “Soldering Errors” and when tiny components fall off without notice.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/e-liza-dolls_deck-10_2020-1.jpg)

E-liza Dolls Kickstarter will open very soon in March 2021.

**Roboticists in Residence** is a Silicon Valley Robotics initiative that provides free studio space and support for creative artists and engineers making a difference, whether it’s modding a Tesla with all the conveniences of the Victorian era or adding to the ROS2 navigational stack.

*For more information and updates from our [*Roboticists in Residence*](https://svrobo.org/roboticists-in-residence/?ref=goodoil.news)*

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