Appearances
2020 - the year of Coronavirus
BattleBots Season 5 on Discovery Channel, Judge.
Nima, "Interview with BattleBots Celebrity, Lisa Winter".
FemaleOneZero, "Three Things to Know About Robotics".
Behind the Bots podcast, Interview.
2019
Oct. 19th 2019 AWS Girls' Tech Day (Hilliard, OH), Speaker.
Sept. 28th 2019 AWS Girls' Tech Day (Manassas, VA), Speaker.
BattleBots Season 4 on Discovery Channel, Judge.
FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) mentoring on team 5419.
CES (Las Vegas, NV), Speaker: "Household Robots: Doing the Chores We Don't Want to Do".
2018
AWS Girls' Tech Day (Manassas, VA), Speaker.
The FAN Show podcast, episode 355.
In Search Of..., episode 4, as herself.
FutureWorld (Toronto, Canada), Speaker.
The cover of MAKE magazine issue 63, and article.
Maker Faire (San Mateo, CA), Speaker: "Decades of Bot Battle Experience Lead to Saving the World".
The Archery (San Francisco, CA), Keynote speaker.
BattleBots Season 3 on Discovery Channel, Judge.
McDonogh School visit, 3 assemblies and a robot building workshop.
FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) Regionals in SF and Fresno, mentoring team 5419.
AIM18 conference (Melbourne, Australia), Speaker at Gala dinner.
2017
Mattel CreativeCon (El Segundo, CA), Speaker + Robot Workshop.
WIRED, "Make Every Day The San Francisco Tour".
Rouge Valley Mini Maker Faire (Ashland, OR), Speaker.
DragonCon (Atlanta, GA), Speaker.
BIL (San Francisco, CA), Speaker: "Are Robots Trying To Kill Us?".
CUBE Tech Fair (Berlin, Germany), Panel: "Coffee With Robots: Innovations in Human-Robot Interaction".
RePublica (Berlin, Germany), Speaker: "A Robot Psychiatrist and a Battle-Robot Builder Walk into a Bar - and talk".
Pilsen Talks: The Role of the Human (Plzeň, Czec Republic), Speaker: "Are Robots Trying To Kill Us?".
VICE CHINA, "Future Home - Episode 2".
WIT talks podcast, episode 7.
LAST Festival (San Jose, CA), Panel: "Machines that dream. Can Artificial Intelligence be Creative?".
Planet Labs (San Francisco, CA), Speaker on combat robot design.
Inside The Bot podcast, "Team Robot Action League/Mega Tento Special ft. Lisa Winter"
2016
Make Zine, "Maker Spotlight: Lisa Winter".
25 Women in Robotics You Need to Know About 2016.
EB Maker Faire, Moderator of MegaBots speaker session, and Appearance at BattleBots exhibit.
Rocklin Maker Faire, Appearance at BattleBots exhibit.
Make Zine, "Lisa Winter Goes Back to Her Maker Roots on BattleBots".
BattleBots First Annual Watch Party, Speaker and appearance by Mega Tento.
Maker Faire (San Mateo, CA), Speaker: "Four Women in Robotics"
Autodesk, Speaker: "Autodesk Celebrates Makers-Entrepreneurs During SFMade Week".
Tormach Brand Ambassador.
ABC's BattleBots Season 2, Team Captain and Builder of 'Mega Tento' (Robot).
2015
EB Maker Faire, Speaker: "Women under 30 in robotics".
Medium, "Greece, Upcycle your ATMs". An article about the interactive ATM I made.
The Spine, "ABC’s New Series of Battlebots: Reviewed Through English Eyes".
Purple Clover, "'BATTLEBOTS': Father and Daughter Join Forces".
Kill Screen, "The New BattleBots is harder, better, faster, and finally all grown up".
ABC's BattleBots Season 1, Team Captain and Builder of 'Plan X' (Robot).
2014
Iot World Hackathon (Palo Alto, CA), Mentor.
TVOT Hackathon (San Francisco, CA), Developed real-time system for presenting content and recommendations to people using smart TV remotes.
Impossible Hackathon (Berkeley, CA), Organizer and Judge.
Emotive Insight Designathon (San Francisco, CA), Won 'Best Wearable Mashup' for the Mood Ring Locket.
2013
The Quantified Self 2013 Global Conference, Speaker: "How to Make Bluetooth 4.0 Connected Hardware".
SF Gate, "West Berkeley hobbyist wins attention, funding for invention".
Transmedia SF, "Transformational Transmedia Time and Toys: Enter the Robot".
Make, "Stupid Fun Club." Summer 2013: 26-32. Print.
*AWARD: Robot Film Festival. Winner of Most Uncanny Botsker.
2009
*DEGREE: BA Art, University of California, Santa Cruz.
*GRANT: Porter Fellowship Fund (UC Santa Cruz).
2006
Master of Champions, episode 1.6. on ABC, Contestant.
2003
Book: Gearheads: The Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports.
2002
Book: BattleBots, the Official Guide. New York: McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2002.
BattleBots (U.S.), on Comedy Central, Builder and driver of Tentoumushi and Mr. Squeaky.
2001
*AWARD: Robot Wars Middleweight Melee World Champion.
BattleBots (U.K.), Builder and driver of Tentoumushi.
2000
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, guest (with Tentoumushi).
1998
ZDTV News, on TechTV, interview.
1997
LA Times, "At Robot Wars, combatants rush at one another with buzz saws and axes. And the crowd roars."
1995
National Geographic for Kids, "Robots".
1996-1998
Robot Wars (U.S), Builder and driver of Dough Boy.
BattleBots Season 5 on Discovery Channel, Judge.
Nima, "Interview with BattleBots Celebrity, Lisa Winter".
FemaleOneZero, "Three Things to Know About Robotics".
Behind the Bots podcast, Interview.
2019
Oct. 19th 2019 AWS Girls' Tech Day (Hilliard, OH), Speaker.
Sept. 28th 2019 AWS Girls' Tech Day (Manassas, VA), Speaker.
BattleBots Season 4 on Discovery Channel, Judge.
FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) mentoring on team 5419.
CES (Las Vegas, NV), Speaker: "Household Robots: Doing the Chores We Don't Want to Do".
2018
AWS Girls' Tech Day (Manassas, VA), Speaker.
The FAN Show podcast, episode 355.
In Search Of..., episode 4, as herself.
FutureWorld (Toronto, Canada), Speaker.
The cover of MAKE magazine issue 63, and article.
Maker Faire (San Mateo, CA), Speaker: "Decades of Bot Battle Experience Lead to Saving the World".
The Archery (San Francisco, CA), Keynote speaker.
BattleBots Season 3 on Discovery Channel, Judge.
McDonogh School visit, 3 assemblies and a robot building workshop.
FRC (FIRST Robotics Competition) Regionals in SF and Fresno, mentoring team 5419.
AIM18 conference (Melbourne, Australia), Speaker at Gala dinner.
2017
Mattel CreativeCon (El Segundo, CA), Speaker + Robot Workshop.
WIRED, "Make Every Day The San Francisco Tour".
Rouge Valley Mini Maker Faire (Ashland, OR), Speaker.
DragonCon (Atlanta, GA), Speaker.
BIL (San Francisco, CA), Speaker: "Are Robots Trying To Kill Us?".
CUBE Tech Fair (Berlin, Germany), Panel: "Coffee With Robots: Innovations in Human-Robot Interaction".
RePublica (Berlin, Germany), Speaker: "A Robot Psychiatrist and a Battle-Robot Builder Walk into a Bar - and talk".
Pilsen Talks: The Role of the Human (Plzeň, Czec Republic), Speaker: "Are Robots Trying To Kill Us?".
VICE CHINA, "Future Home - Episode 2".
WIT talks podcast, episode 7.
LAST Festival (San Jose, CA), Panel: "Machines that dream. Can Artificial Intelligence be Creative?".
Planet Labs (San Francisco, CA), Speaker on combat robot design.
Inside The Bot podcast, "Team Robot Action League/Mega Tento Special ft. Lisa Winter"
2016
Make Zine, "Maker Spotlight: Lisa Winter".
25 Women in Robotics You Need to Know About 2016.
EB Maker Faire, Moderator of MegaBots speaker session, and Appearance at BattleBots exhibit.
Rocklin Maker Faire, Appearance at BattleBots exhibit.
Make Zine, "Lisa Winter Goes Back to Her Maker Roots on BattleBots".
BattleBots First Annual Watch Party, Speaker and appearance by Mega Tento.
Maker Faire (San Mateo, CA), Speaker: "Four Women in Robotics"
Autodesk, Speaker: "Autodesk Celebrates Makers-Entrepreneurs During SFMade Week".
Tormach Brand Ambassador.
ABC's BattleBots Season 2, Team Captain and Builder of 'Mega Tento' (Robot).
2015
EB Maker Faire, Speaker: "Women under 30 in robotics".
Medium, "Greece, Upcycle your ATMs". An article about the interactive ATM I made.
The Spine, "ABC’s New Series of Battlebots: Reviewed Through English Eyes".
Purple Clover, "'BATTLEBOTS': Father and Daughter Join Forces".
Kill Screen, "The New BattleBots is harder, better, faster, and finally all grown up".
ABC's BattleBots Season 1, Team Captain and Builder of 'Plan X' (Robot).
2014
Iot World Hackathon (Palo Alto, CA), Mentor.
TVOT Hackathon (San Francisco, CA), Developed real-time system for presenting content and recommendations to people using smart TV remotes.
Impossible Hackathon (Berkeley, CA), Organizer and Judge.
Emotive Insight Designathon (San Francisco, CA), Won 'Best Wearable Mashup' for the Mood Ring Locket.
2013
The Quantified Self 2013 Global Conference, Speaker: "How to Make Bluetooth 4.0 Connected Hardware".
SF Gate, "West Berkeley hobbyist wins attention, funding for invention".
Transmedia SF, "Transformational Transmedia Time and Toys: Enter the Robot".
Make, "Stupid Fun Club." Summer 2013: 26-32. Print.
*AWARD: Robot Film Festival. Winner of Most Uncanny Botsker.
2009
*DEGREE: BA Art, University of California, Santa Cruz.
*GRANT: Porter Fellowship Fund (UC Santa Cruz).
2006
Master of Champions, episode 1.6. on ABC, Contestant.
2003
Book: Gearheads: The Turbulent Rise of Robotic Sports.
2002
Book: BattleBots, the Official Guide. New York: McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2002.
BattleBots (U.S.), on Comedy Central, Builder and driver of Tentoumushi and Mr. Squeaky.
2001
*AWARD: Robot Wars Middleweight Melee World Champion.
BattleBots (U.K.), Builder and driver of Tentoumushi.
2000
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, guest (with Tentoumushi).
1998
ZDTV News, on TechTV, interview.
1997
LA Times, "At Robot Wars, combatants rush at one another with buzz saws and axes. And the crowd roars."
1995
National Geographic for Kids, "Robots".
1996-1998
Robot Wars (U.S), Builder and driver of Dough Boy.