User:Geo Swan/Catie Cuan

Catie Cuan is an American engineer. Cuan was profiled on the PBS Newshour, on December 7, 2018, which described her a PhD student in mechanical engineering, at Stanford University, who had worked as a professional ballet dancer. The profile showed Cuan bringing her former career to use as she and her colleagues worked to make robots more human, using her as a model, and tracking her dance moves, to train robots to move in ways that seemed more human, and thus less threatening.

Forbes magazine interviewed Cuan and a collaborator, Amy LaViers, a professor at the University of Illinois's Robotics, Automation, and Dance Lab. The pair developed a performance called "Time to compile".