• Annika O'Brien is the Robo-Tech for Team "Game Over" on the new SyFy series Robot Combat League. Together, she and her Robo-Jockey, Keisha Howard of SugarGamers.com will battle it out in an arena, controlling an 8 ft. tall, 1,000 pound humanoid for a chance at $100,000 and the champion title!

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    Founder of the LA Robotics Club, the largest and most active club of its kind in Southern California. With over 1,200 members the club includes professional engineers, computer scientists, robotics enthusiasts and youth. We focus on open-source platforms such as Arduino and hold classes as part of our community outreach.

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    Instructor and Tutor, working with many underserved youth in the Los Angeles area. Areas of expertise range from teaching soldering and Arduino classes with the LA Robotics Club to working with Porpoise Robotics, a high school outreach program that teaches and mentors underserved kids about robotics via team-built aquatic vehicles.

Promoting open-source electronics and robotics for people of all ages and experience levels.

My radio interview with KPFK 90.7 FM, December 1st, 2012:

Fell from the sky, hatched from an egg, and raised by wolves in a utopian society where neither wealth, race nor gender defined one’s worth, thus preventing me from allowing any of these to shape me. At age 8, I began programming in BASIC on my Commodore 64. When I wasn’t ice fishing and tracking wolverines/reindeer, I spent my time playing video games and making crappy video games.
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I initially went to college to be a doctor, but realized I was better at fixing broken computers than broken people so I continued working as a programmer in the video game industry for years, keeping robotics as a hobby.

I decided I wanted to get my Masters in Robotics, focusing my personal interests on Humanoids and Autonomous Vehicles. I started a local Robotics Club, which has grown to over 1,100 members. It’s free.

I am now a full-time Robot builder who makes really cool stuff for a living. In my extra time I teach under-served teens in inner-city Los Angeles how to make robots, including how to program and design the entire thing, mostly from junk. I also offer hands-on Arduino classes all over Los Angeles and Orange County.

I’m not a tomboy. I’m just not willing to play in a world where gender defines one’s tastes. I am the love child of Grace Kelly and Thor.