For further higher study in Robotics, which core stream is preferrable to choose out of Mechanical, Electronics & Computer Science?

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Robotics is the discipline which bridge the way between mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, and even psychology. To be a robotics engineer, you need to have a whole range of different skills and areas of expertise. There are 3 core disciplines within robotics that is mechanics, electronics, and computer science.

Mechanical Engineering - This branch of engineering looks at the physical systems which make up a robot. Subtopics like mechanics, materials engineering and manufacturing are core to industrial robotics. Often, mechanical engineering courses will have specialization in mechatronics or robotics, but these tend to be focused mostly on physical design and actuation.

Electrical and Electronic Engineering - This branch of engineering gives you the basics of electronics, embedded systems, low-level programming, and control theory. Often, electrical engineering courses will also provide specialisations in robotics or automation, which will be centred around the control of robots rather than the mechanical design.

Computer Science - A lot of people in research seem to enter robotics through computer science. Common platforms remove the research focus from the physical hardware and instead allow researchers to concentrate on software and high-level programming. Often, these courses will include robotic programming topics such as Artificial Intelligence and Software Design.

These are the core 3, but there are also many other routes you could take to end up working in robotics.

Of course, you are never going to be a leading expert in all of the sub-fields of robotics, but developing yourself into a competent computer scientist, electrical engineer and mechanical engineer will put you in a great position when you continue to specialise throughout your career.

Hope this helps.

Hello,

The actual working of a robot is largely based on developing its neural schema. Studying 4 years of Mechanical Engineering just to develop its outer body, it's joints etc is a very bad investment. You could pick that up through a short term course. So I advice to choose computer science engg.

If you want to choose between mechanical and electrical I suggest you to choose electrical  engineering. Because all action robots takes is based on electrical engineering principles.

You can also ho for Machine learning and deep learning on coursera . Once you get certified from there you don't need anything else to learn.Youll masters robotics in few months.

Hope it helps. Best luck!!