Program Description
About the course
Robotics is on the cusp of an exciting new era as robots become more intelligent and find applications in an ever more diverse range of industries including Consumer, Automotive and Healthcare Robotics.According to a recent report, Robotics is the fastest growing industry in the world and is poised to become the largest in the next decade. We are in the midst of an increase in the pace of technological change and the changes in the coming decade will be a magnitude of order greater than anything that has gone before. A shift is about to take place that will forever change society; our ability to manufacture novel robots and new intelligent systems will both change the way we interact with technology and will allow technology to interact with us and our world in a far more nuanced way.Our four-year Robotics degree reflects recent Software and Hardware technological advances and exposes you to new, much sought-after skills and up-to-date areas of research. The degree includes recent technological advances in areas such as Embedded Systems, Intelligent Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Mechatronics. You will experiment and interact with specialist software, hardware interfaces and systems, as well as exotic robots and fabrication facilities. You will be taught by academics whose research is rated as internationally excellent by the latest Research Excellence Framework in areas including Robotics and Intelligent Systems.The degree has a good balance of academic theory and practical ‘hands-on’ project work. You will work in purpose-built laboratories, using the very latest equipment.
Course structure
Teaching on this degree is structured into lectures, where all students are taught together, seminars of smaller groups of around 15-20 students, and tutorials which typically have no more than 10 students.In the UK, degree level study equates to a total of 1200 hours, (nominally around 40 hours per week) with part of this time taught within the university and the remainder as private study. During your first year of study, there are approximately 12 teaching hours each week, which reduces to approximately 10 teaching hours in your second, third and fourth years. On top of teaching hours, you are also expected to spend a number of hours studying independently each week, as well as studying in groups to prepare for any group assessments that you may have.
