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Re: what colleges have good robotics majors
The NASA Robotics Education Program has a list of universities that have robotics programs. See:
Robotics Education Project - Universities
Most of the above programs involve graduate-level research robotics laboratories, but there may be a few undergraduate options as well. The reason for the predominance of graduate programs over undergraduate is that robotics laboratories in universities are run by research faculty who obtain grants to do cutting edge research. These programs often integrate artificial intelligence, machine vision, control theory concepts that require a good understanding of mechanical and/or electrical engineering, with computer science/engineering thrown in. The labs will have team members (graduate students and post-docs) that have degrees in engineering or science working on one or more research projects. FIRST robotics gives students a taste of what is involved, without all of the rigorous engineering analysis.
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