Dr. Katie Winkle is a Digital Futures Postdoctoral Research Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden. After originally studying to be a mechanical engineer, Katie undertook a PhD in Robotics at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in the UK, where her research focused on the expert-informed design and automation of socially assistive robots. Her research interests cover participatory, human-in-the-loop technical development of social robots as well as the impact of such robots on human behavior and society.