Lucy Rogers

Dr. Lucy Rogers is a chartered engineer, who will appear as a judge in the 2016 series of Robot Wars, alongside veteran Professor Noel Sharkey and fellow judging newcomer, Sethu Vijayakumar. Rogers' role in the series was first revealed on March 4th by a tweet from BBC Two.

Robot Wars
Rogers is the most recently appointed judge in the history of Robot Wars, alongside Sethu Vijayakumar, with all appearances currently upcoming, aside from the pilot episode, where she was able to award her first victory via Judges' decision to Turbulence over Merlin.

Outside Robot Wars
Dr. Lucy Rogers is a Chartered Engineer, and holds the position of Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Royal Astronomical Society, and the British Interplanetary Society, and is a member of both the Association of British Science Writers, and of the Women’s Institute. Rogers also attained a City and Guilds qualification in Woodturning. On the Dr. Lucy Rogers website, Rogers claims that she was "given a doctorate for playing with bubbles".

Rogers released a book titled "It’s ONLY Rocket Science – An Introduction in Plain English", which was published by Springer.

Her current projects focus on reducing the damage of space debris.