Program Overview

The world of robotics is exciting and fast paced – revolutionising the way we live, work and play.

This is a conversion course designed for non-engineering graduates wishing to work for engineering companies. This MSc will give you the skills needed to work for employers developing or applying:

• devices and systems for robotics and automation
• smart systems with autonomous capability
• ubiquitous and wearable devices.

You build on your individual responsibility, critical awareness and creative thinking, and examine issues such as:

• project management, planning and scheduling
• resourcing
• documentation and communication.

You’ll be supervised by research-active faculty and be part of our vibrant international community. We have strong links with industry, well-equipped research and teaching laboratories, and we help you with your professional development.

We also offer this MSc with an industrial placement year, making it a two-year course, or with a Masters industrial placement.

CAREERS

An MSc in Robotics and Autonomous Systems could be your passport to a career in a wide range of established and rapidly developing areas that are changing our lives including:

• smart technologies
• driverless vehicles
• vehicle design
• renewable energies
• film and television
• car production
• space or underwater exploration
• commercialised agriculture
• medical diagnosis
• remote and minimally invasive surgery
• crime prevention.