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Applications include self-driving cars, delivery drones, remote and robotic surgical tools, micro-power grids, Internet-connected appliances, digital manufacturing equipment, and atmospheric control systems. This rapid transition requires engineers and computer scientists with cross-cutting training who can transform advances in digital hardware, communication networks, additive manufacturing, computational mechanics, and artificial intelligence into physical and information-system technologies.

Students in the Autonomy & Robotics program will learn about the complexities of the software systems needed to run autonomous systems; the mathematics, control, and information theory behind algorithm design; the physics needed to model robots and mobile vehicles; and the technologies for making and modifying physical prototypes.

Students will have the opportunity to further specialize and concentrate their knowledge in one or more of these areas to which all will be introduced and exposed. This combination of breath and depth will produce engineers able to contribute immediately to a specific area once employed, but will also put them in a unique position to pivot and learn other areas as required.