Are You Interested in Robotics?

Robotics combines engineering, science and art to design human-centered tools that improve daily tasks and processes. Focus areas like autonomous systems, industrial engineering, space exploration, health care and transportation are providing opportunities to push the limits of what we know as impossible today.

“I’m an engineering research psychologist modeling human cognition. First we understand what humans do and then we see if we can get a robot to do that.”

Sunny Khemlani, Ph.D.

Senior Cognitive Scientist
Navy Center for Applied Research and Intelligence, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Types of Careers in Robotics

Aerospace Engineer

Animatronics Engineer

Autonomous Systems Engineer

Electrical Engineer

Electronics Engineer

Flexible Robotics Engineer

Mechatronics Engineer

Robotic Process Automation Developer

Robotics Developer

Robotics Engineer

Robotics Programmer

Robotics Scientist

Robotics Software Engineer

Robotics Technician

Robotics Technologist

Robotics Tester

Unmanned Vehicle Operations Specialist

Plus Many More!

Robotics Jobs in Action at the DoD

“My internship is actually where I gained the insight that I wanted to study my particular area of aerospace engineering.”

Matthew Tan

Student, Aerospace Engineering
Stanford University

Growing up, Matthew Tan loved building robots from kits and competing with the FIRST LEGO League and other robotics competitions. “I didn't realize how much I was learning. At the time you're building a robot you're having fun and doing what you need to do to get it to accomplish the goals of the competition. At the same time, you ended up teaching yourself the trigonometry you need for the aiming system or the basic electronics you need to integrate a sensor.”

In addition to participating in science fairs and competitions, such as the Research Science Institute sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education, Tan encourages STEM students to look for internships, even as early as high school, but especially in college.

Learn More About Robotics Through These Opportunities

SeaPerch

RoboNation offers SeaPerch, an underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) competition. SeaPerch uses hands-on methods to equip students and teachers with the resources needed to learn basic science and engineering concepts like tool safety, technical applications, problem-solving, and teamworking skills.

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FIRST Robotics Competition

FIRST® Robotics Competition teams design, program, and build industrial-sized robots from scratch with a kit of parts and a common set of rules to play a different game every season. Teams also create a team identity, develop community partnerships for support, and work to promote STEM in their local community.

Students

Volunteers

Aerial Drones Competition

The Robotics Education & Competition Foundation offers an Aerial Drones Competition for middle school and high school students to engage in hands-on STEM education. Students learn to safely operate a drone, work as a team, and research workforce applications of aerial robotic technology; all while having a blast!

Students

Volunteers

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