<p>I'm interesting on buliding robots or something like that, but i don't know where do i learn robotics? Can anyone give me suggestion what colleges that might have it or UC?
Please!!!!!!^.^</p>
<p>Robotics is a much broader term than you might think. Engineering areas include mechanical, electrical, and computer engineering and computer science. Many engineering colleges have robotics courses, often listed under their mechanical engineering courses but also often cross-listed with those other areas.</p>
<p>have a friend doing robotics at carnegie mellon. he is electrical/computer (i think they lump it)</p>
<p>at JHU you can do BME specialize in Instrumentation and specialize even further to do robotics and get a minor in integrated computer surgery from the CS department. You can approach robotics from any angle you want to.</p>
<p>It is a realatively new major, but I found it mostly under Mechanical Engineering and then you have to choose it as a focus. Mechanatronics is the name, it is what I am going to be doing in the fall at Cal Poly, Slo. But I also might change it to a more genral focus. And I also do not believe a UC would have it, since, I would believe robotics would be pretty hands on, and we all know UC's are more research based.</p>
<p>yeah, i'm doing a general engineering program plus a little more CS for the robotics.</p>
<p>A decent chunk of the MechE faculty at my school work in robotics.</p>
<p>Robotics generally falls under MechE, but I believe the recent major developments are taken from the EE/CompE/CS fields (or at least those skillsets).</p>
<p>Generally speaking, robotics is a study of motion & its control. Usually, the motion relates to multiple-body dynamics, including the joint between two movable parts (stiffness and damping) and kinematics. This falls into the domain of classical ME. Control relates to the study of command/control/communication, which is a part of ME, but also part of EE. When you study control, be it optimal control, robust control or nonlinear control, you will see a vast overlap between ME & EE. More recently, artificial intelligence is being introduced to robotics for C3 refinement.</p>
<p>SO… ME is for the fundamental classical dynamics, ME/EE is for control, and ME/EE/CS for AI-C3 system integration.</p>
<p>robotics falls under EE not ME...control systems, navigation = EE. design = ME</p>
<p>I think a lot of it depends on what type of robotics you are talking about. If you are talking about industrial robotics (e.g. the robotic arms that build cars) and more low-level control, hardware oriented things that is probably ME / EE. If you are talking about more software oriented things, especially related to autonomous / mobile robotics (e.g. the DARPA Grand Challenge, Robocup) that is mostly worked on in CS departments as a sort of subfield of AI. I'm from the CS side of things and the kind of things robotics professors work on in CS are algorithms related to simultaneous localization and mapping, multi robot teams, path finding and planning, integrating computer vision and robotics, etc.</p>