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The robotics industry has been compared to the personal computer industry in the 1970's: ready to explode! [1] Robots can do repetitive, tedious work without complaining: vacuum our floors, mow our lawns, clean our gutters, assemble our cars, and fill thousands of vials with chemicals for drug testing.
Students are coming to college with more experience and interest than ever before, thanks to FIRST Robotics, BotBall, First Lego League, and other competitions. They are ready to learn more about programming, electronics, controls, artificial intelligence, robot vision, and kinematics.
Robotics is a multidisciplinary field, blending mechanics, electronics, controls, and software, and requiring engineers to have deep enough knowledge where they can contribute within their specialty, but broad enough knowledge to understand other engineers. They must also be able to work in multidisciplinary teams.
[1] Bill Gates. “A robot in every home”, Scientific American, December 16, 2006
download the robotics brochure
A robot is a mechanical system with electrical sensors and controls given intelligence through software.
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Michael Stigler, owner of the Robotics company, Silicis Technologies, offers words of advice for any student aspiring to work in robotics, in So You Want to Be a Roboteer?
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For more information about the multidisciplinary minor in robotics, email the Program Director at robotics@rose-hulman.edu.
Last updated 7/18/2011