What major would be ideal for pursuing medical robotics?

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<p>I'm interested in doing medical robotics (like developing the Da Vinci robotics used in surgery) yet can't decide on the "correct" major to pursue it. I'm in Columbia SEAS, and the obvious answer is biomedical engineering, however, SEAS' BME curriculum doesn't have much emphasis on the robotics spectrum (it's more medicine/biology related - and seems to be more focused on premed than actual engineering.)</p>

<p>So should I stay with BME? Or could I do medical robotics with Comp eng or EE?</p>

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<p>Do you want to build the robots or program them, or both. If you want to program them then comp sci (Most CS programs have a professor or two with research interests in robotics) If you want to build them or both, then CompE or EE.</p>

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<p>mechanical engineering.</p>

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<p>mechatronics</p>

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<p>Thanks for the help hockfan, I'm going back and forth between comp eng or comp sci and a minor in EE.</p>

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<p>CS if you want to work on the algorithms & math, CE or EE for the sensors, cameras, etc... MechE for some other areas of it.</p>