Rya is a senior reporter at Business Insider covering robotics and physical AI. She writes about factory automation, humanoid robots, and the race to collect the real-world data needed to bring AI into the physical world.
She previously worked at The San Francisco Standard, where she reported on tech culture and autonomous vehicles. She has a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College and a master’s from the University of Cambridge.
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