<p>Caltanner writes “Do I need to suck it up and study engineering, if I want to be involved with future robotics? Or can I focus in CS and simply collaborate closely with engineers in the future?”</p>
<p>Probably. Most of the robotics brainstorming is done in ME and EE. Of course, the engineers really want to have advances in robotic vision and AI but I’ve asked at some research universities and the CS participation is not that significant. I know someone in robotics research with degrees in ME, EE and CS (can’t recall whether the CS was a masters or the PHD).</p>