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Go Beyond Human Limits in Cutting-Edge Robotics Programs
From helping package our food and assembling automobiles to exploring the ocean’s depths and navigating the surface of the moon, robotics is now an integral part of our lives — and our future. Mimicking human behavior but offering unique abilities, robots have helped us accomplish things that once seemed beyond our reach.
If you want to know how robots work behind the scenes and advancements like the Mars exploration rovers, self-driving cars, and aerial drones are exciting to you, learning robotics could be the next step toward your career.
Science and Engineering Meet Computer Science and AI
Robotics is a field of engineering dedicated to designing, producing, operating, and improving robots — intelligent machines with human capabilities or characteristics. Robotics programs encompass several disciplines: mechanical, electrical, computer, industrial and manufacturing engineering, computer science, system design, and data analysis. As a robotics student, you’ll also study computer vision, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality.
Robotics is creating new possibilities across industries and fields: they are essential components of assembly lines, they help defend military personnel in combat, and they even assist in surgeries. Robots are found harvesting crops, automating warehouses, and performing search-and-rescue missions. While early robots had mostly repetitive applications and were primarily limited to manufacturing within the automotive industry, today’s sophisticated robots are more autonomous and can assist in foodservice and transportation. For example, Domino’s and Nuro recently tested a self-driving pizza delivery robot.
Exercise Creativity—And Help Solve Problems
Whether you want to invent something new or improve existing technologies, robotics programs prepare you to live out your passion for creativity and address challenges businesses, people or countries face. Robotics courses teach you how to apply your strengths in science, math and computer science to engineer machines that improve our lives and work.
Pursue a Wide Range of Careers
Since they are interdisciplinary and applicable to countless settings, robotics programs prepare you for numerous careers. Work on self-driving semi fleets. Program the “brain” behind the stunt bot for an action movie. Design the controls for a robotic home assistant. Learning robotics helps you work toward these roles and others, combining mechanical, electrical and computer engineering concepts.
The robotics field is continuously evolving and full of possibilities for students interested in how machines work, as well as AI, programming, and technology. Check out some of the top careers in robotics listed below.
Robotics Engineer
Design, assemble, test, and reconfigure robots for a variety of contexts. Robotics engineers help bring blueprints and designs for robots to life, designing prototypes and simulating a robot’s functions. These engineers work in several industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, defense, agriculture, automotive, and even aerospace. Explore Kettering’s B.S. in Engineering
Hardware Engineer
Design, assemble, test, and reconfigure robots for a variety of contexts. Robotics engineers help bring blueprints and designs for robots to life, designing prototypes and simulating a robot’s functions. These engineers work in several industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, defense, agriculture, automotive, and aerospace. Explore Kettering’s B.S. in Engineering and B.S. in Industrial Engineering
Software Engineer
Work behind the scenes on the key component of robots: their intelligence. Software engineers in robotics programs troubleshoot and develop software and technology applications that allow robots to function. They’re responsible for controls, software integration and putting designs into code.
Programs for Students Interested in Learning Robotics
Because this field is multidisciplinary, you can learn robotics in various engineering programs. Choosing a robotics concentration allows you to specialize in the field, but you’ll also learn skills and concepts you can apply in a robotics career in the following programs.
Undergraduate Programs
Kettering offers several paths to careers in robotics. Browse undergraduate robotics programs and related degrees.
Graduate Programs
If you hold an undergraduate degree and are interested in learning robotics, explore the following graduate degrees in engineering from Kettering.
Engineer Your Future in Robotics
Learn Robotics Hands-on in the Lab
The best robotics programs create opportunities for applying what you’ve learned in the classroom. Kettering is proud to offer you opportunities to design, program, and test robots in state-of-the-art research labs.
Battle Out Your Robotics Knowledge in Combat Robotics
Join Kettering’s Combat Robotics team to engineer real-life robots that duke it out with others throughout the country.
Learn Practical Application in Kettering’s Robotics Courses
In Kettering’s Robotics Systems concentration or related robotics programs, you’ll focus on implementing robotics in contexts like virtual reality, artificial intelligence and energy storage.