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Re: Is this optimized for robotics:

Robotics is a multidisciplinary application of science and technology. You need mechanical guys to build it, electrical guys to wire and control it, and computer scientists to do the programming. So any of those majors (and several others) can be "optimized" for robotics. There is even a small but growing number of schools who offer robotics as a major.

Where I work, it is mostly computer scientists who do robotics on a daily basis. We tend to order our robots from a catalog and do the interesting stuff with custom software - and this is a trend that I only see becoming more common going forward. So my recommendation is whatever course of study you pursue, you should at least take introductory computer science courses. As you said, AI is a very young field where we still have much to learn and there is going to be a lot of work in that area in future years.
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