You should only study this field if you noticed that there was at least one male-to-X jumper cable in the female-female jumpers cables box and you were bothered by it :)
Haha not me, but the capstone was a group of students from different majors. Our group had a computer scientist, an electrical engineer, and a mechanical engineer.
hi! im an incoming scs student (probably ai major) and want to have robotics as a secondary major, the only thing is that i have no experience in the hardware aspect of robotics at all (i know how to code robots mostly through simulators and have done so) and am wondering if it's doable with almost no prior experience actually building robots. next year (or well- this year i guess) i will most likely try making a mobot and racing it as well as visiting the makerspaces but am worried that i will fall behind in the major amongst people who had access to robotics in high school. so, is the major doable for someone with no hardware-focused robotics experience?
Hi there! Yes the robotics major is definitely doable without mechanical engineering experience. You can choose courses that fulfill the requirements that are software/computer science oriented. For example, computer vision, path planning and SLAM were all purely software classes that counted towards my robotics major. If you are interested in learning the mechanical side (which I definitely recommend you do because it's a lot of fun), I recommend the IDEATE courses because they're beginner friendly, hands on, and have a small class size so you get lots of feedback from the professor. I took Creative Kinetic Systems and it was an amazing intro to how to design in CAD, fabricate using laser cutters/3d printers and more. Best of luck with college :)
Also an alum (1982). Remembering one of the students in senior year ASE making a robot gripper by stiffening the outside of 3 garden hoses and applying air pressure to make it grip. Maybe a soft robotics first?
Rn I do robots for fun/as a hobby, gonna go to college for Comp Sci though. Making me want to go for Robotics now just for all the parts you have access to. LOL
Hi there! You can’t apply as an undergrad to the robotics major directly. You’ll need to apply as an engineering or computer science major and then you can add on the robotics major once you’re there
Ahhhhhhh. I am so jealous! I am a Mechatronics major at CSU Channel Islands and the facilities here are just so lacking. You have sooooo much more cool stuff and places to work with :(
