Robotics is a multi-disciplinary area involving ideas from mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and computer science. With ever increasing processing power, increasing connectivity, developments in AI, robots will play an increasingly greater role in our society. At present, robots are being deployed in the fields of agriculture, healthcare, service industry, transport, logistics, and manufacturing.
Thus, courses in robotics should be offered at undergraduate level to keep our graduates at pace with the changing dynamics of technology landscape. This course is a breadth-first course designed to be the first in a two-course sequence on robotics.The goal of this course is to acclimatize the students with the area of robotics and to get them started with building robots. This is accomplished by presenting foundational knowledge from the fields of mechanical engineering, electrical and computer engineering, and computer science that is pertinent to domain of robotics. This course will focus on robot arms and legs, while the next course ‘Mobile Robotics’ focuses on wheeled robots.
