University of Minnesota to offer new master’s degree in robotics

The University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering announced that it will offer a new master's degree in robotics to meet the growing local and global workforce needs for robotics engineers and scientists in a wide range of industries, including medicine, manufacturing, transportation, environmental monitoring, and precision agriculture. Applications are now being accepted for Fall 2020 enrollment. "Robots, automation and artificial intelligence have become a part of our everyday lives. We have robots that can help perform surgeries, monitor our agriculture crops, help make our cars safer, and can even help us care for the elderly," said Professor Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, director of the University's new Minnesota Robotics Institute. "Our new master's degree program will educate the next generation of robotic engineers and scientists who have both critical thinking skills and technical ability to propose innovative ideas and analyze solutions for the future in areas we haven't even thought of yet." The three semester Master of Science (M.S.) in Robotics program will be offered by the new Minnesota Robotics Institute. The program will bring together the knowledge and expertise from more than 30 faculty in nine departments across five different University of Minnesota colleges in the areas relevant to robotics. Students will collaborate with faculty from several academic departments in computer science, electrical and computer engineering, aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, and many others.