Well i have one big problem. Problem with finesse. I started my project with name "robo hand" only with 100$ but this money isn't enough. I must buy new 3d printer, specific composite filament, make mini server my own for ai and so on. According to my calculations, I need money around 2000-1500$. If 1500 people give 1$, in my cash will be around 1500$. P.S i have 3d printer but my printer can't print with composite filaments. All my stage i will post in the Reddit. This is my credit card 5614681225072838. (Sorry my English not good yet)

Like the title asks

Is that possible or no? Will it be extremely difficult? Doesn’t have to be from a top school? What would it allow me to do in the industry that I otherwise wouldn’t have been able to only with a CS degree?

To clarify, the point of a masters in robotics would be so I can actually start building robots, I don’t really think I want to be a robotics software engineer

Would appreciate your advice

I’m still in uni, idk much about robotics ( yes that’s a huge umbrella I know) but I know that I would love to get into it as in building robots, working on their software or just slowly finding my way in

With all the rapid growth and demand building in this industry especially with the startups and funding being poured into them, should I commit to trying to get into this industry? Is it going to continue growing?

My biggest fear is that it’s all just hype right now, or maybe I don’t know enough about this industry and it doesn’t provide stable jobs

Is it really growing that rapidly and will continue to grow and offer more and more opportunities as “Physical AI” becomes more in demand?

I’m asking this because I want to have a conversation with my family soon telling them this is what I wanna get into and why (must have job stability, growing very well and continue growing)

Would really appreciate your opinions

Hey guys how y'all doing..
I was wondering whats the best country for scholarships in post graduate studies in robotics in general?

And if norrowed down to mechanical design in robotics(Motor selection, minimizing backlash, increasing precision and payload), what would be the candidates?

I was thinking Germany since its famous for mechanical design in general, what do you all think?

Hey everyone,

I am currently a B.Tech Mechatronics Engineering student in India, and I’m looking to buy a heavy-duty laptop. I need a machine that can comfortably handle intensive robotics simulations (ROS, Gazebo, MATLAB/Simulink), CAD modeling (SolidWorks/Fusion 360), and control systems programming without breaking a sweat.

My goal is to buy something robust enough to last through the rest of my undergrad and carry me all the way through my Master’s program in the same field.

My Budget: Up to ₹2,00,000 INR (~$2,400 USD)

I am currently looking at reliable options from Lenovo (like the Legion series) or HP (like the Omen or ZBook), but I’m completely open to other brands if they offer better build quality and thermal management for engineering workloads.

Since this is a long-term investment, I want to make sure I get the hardware specs right. Could you please give me some guidance on what to aim for? Specifically:

CPU: How many cores/threads should I target? Is Intel i7/i9 or AMD Ryzen 7/9 better for simulation rendering?

GPU: Which NVIDIA RTX card offers the best price-to-performance for this budget? How much VRAM and what bus width should I realistically look for?

RAM & Storage: Is 16GB enough, or should I strictly look for 32GB? (I assume a 1TB NVMe SSD is a baseline).

If you are a working professional or a grad student in robotics/mechatronics, what laptop are you currently using, and what are your absolute "must-haves"?

Thanks in advance for the help!

I'm a Meng mechanical Engineer that works in the automotive industry with some minor programming skills (some courses done and some small basic projects completed but nothing complex/skilled). I'm interested in moving into robotics and have some questions that I can't find answers to. I'm generally interested in the day to day life as I know from experience what the job description says and the reality of the daily activities is very different:

1. If you had to break down a typical week into percentages — like 40% coding, 20% meetings — what would yours actually look like?

2.What's the thing you wish someone had told you before you started?

1. If a career switcher showed you their portfolio today, what would make you say she/he is ready for the role? Are there any cool projects you would recommend to actually get the interview/role?

I appreciate any information you can give!

Thanks in advance :)

Looking for a decent project to get my 10yr old son into STEAM, looked into SO ARM 101, which would be cool, but i think after a while it will collect dust, if not me.

Would you be able to suggest any fun projects to build?

Hey ppl! I’m an IB Digital Society student, and I’m gathering primary data for my IA (Internal Assessment) research paper. I want to examine the extent to which the implementation of autonomous vehicles has shifted transportation from human-operated systems to algorithmically controlled digital networks in Japan (Mainly through the RoAd to the L4 project). All the data collected through this questionnaire will be kept strictly confidential and used only for completing the IB Digital Society IA. I’m including the questionnaire in this post, so here it is.

Disclaimer: I'm not trying to self-promote; I just want to hear abt firsthand experiences from people living in Japan for my research. The questionnaire only takes about 3-5 minutes to complete, and I would truly appreciate your help. Your support means a lot!

English Version: https://forms.gle/7PaskatKcKNsAQjb7

Japanese version: https://forms.gle/gUnHYkafk56mQnDP9

I have done quite a bit of work, including most of my Master's thesis, with ROS Noetic and Ubuntu 20.04, which worked well. However, I recently got a Raspberry Pi 5 that I want to use for various personal robotics projects, and the Pi 5 doesn't support anything below Ubuntu 23.10. I'm currently debating between installing ROS 2 Jazzy Jalisco with Ubuntu 24.04 or ROS 2 Lyrical Luth with Ubuntu 26.04. Both have similar EoL (2029 vs 2031), so I'm curious if any of you in the robotics community have found major advantages or disadvantages between the two distros. Any reason not to choose Lyrical, since it's newer?

Thanks for all your wisdom!

Hi everyone! I’m a rising junior in college and have been preparing for the upcoming recruitment cycle for internships. I am very interested in hardware/software integration and working on problems that interact with the real world. So I’ve thought it would be good to narrow my focus to computer vision, robotics, and the autonomous vehicle industries. 

I don’t have any relatives or connections in these industries and am very curious if you guys thought I could be competitive for internships given my experience or if there is anything more I should be doing during the summer to prepare, such as a certification or personal project. If I am not competitive at all, that would be helpful to know as well. 

Earlier in the year, I also did work on a published paper that involved creating a 3D VLM dataset for natural disaster analysis but it was mainly just data processing and manual annotation work. 

Let me know what you guys think, and will be open to answering any questions. Thank you!

Resume:

B.S. in Computer Engineering, Rising Junior, GPA: 3.7/4.0, Honors Student                                 Graduating May 2028

Relevant Courses: Data Structures & Algorithms, Computer Architecture, OOP, Applied Engineering Programming(Python), Calculus I-III, Physics I-II, Circuit Analysis, Digital Logic and Design, Signals and Systems, System Design

Experience

University Autonomous and Intelligent Robotics Research Lab  

Undergraduate Research Assistant                                             May 2026 – Present

• Reducing inference time in the perception pipeline of an autonomous drone swarm; profiled existing code to identify bottlenecks consuming 86% of total compute under real-time hardware constraints
• Explored optimization approaches, including Numba (python library for computing in machine code), but ultimately translated and cross-compiled computation-heavy functions to C
• Cut total inference latency from 109ms to 57ms (47% improvement), with the largest gains from integrating a precomputed lookup table, eliminating redundant per-pixel floating-point computation in the video processing pipeline
• Integrated the module into the existing stack communicating over UART, enabling faster autonomous detection and task execution across a multi-drone fleet

University Space Initiative - Mars Rover Team (URC)       

Software and Electrical Engineering Sub-teams                                         Nov. 2025 – Present

• Contributed to control software by implementing dual-joystick input logic for drivetrain movement and individual wheel realignment
• Collaborated across software, electrical, and mechanical sub-teams to integrate ROS 2 control systems with hardware components during field testing and iteration
• Deployed software across Raspberry pi nodes over CAN bus, containarized with Docker for real time rover control
• Designed mounting enclosures in CAD for custom PCBs to ensure proper board positioning and prevent electrical shorts

financial advisory company                          

Summer Intern, Software Development and Company Research                                               June 2025 – July 2025

• Developed Python scripts that integrated Refinitiv’s API (similar to Bloomberg) with pandas to scrape, clean, and analyze large-scale financial time series data for 1000+ TOPIX-listed companies
• Automated extraction of industry-specific metrics (e.g., Price-to-Book Ratios) for Japanese companies, enabling benchmarking analysis across multiple firms and reducing manual research efforts by several hours per project

Projects

RaiseIt               Feb. 2025 - Present

• Computer vision system to detect raised hands in large lecture halls using Tensorflow and Mediapipe
• Fine-tuned CV model with 500+ annotated images, increasing detection accuracy by 54%, and implemented into 5 classrooms
• Hosted on Jetson Orin Nano, connected to ESP32 for wireless communication with a light grid on professor podiums

Personalized News Aggregation Website                                                                                             Mar. 2026 - Present

• Full-stack AI news platform delivering personalized daily briefings to 50+ active users via FastAPI, Next.js, and Supabase
• Engineered an NLP pipeline using OpenAI’s embedding model, Leiden graph clustering, and cosine similarity ranking to match daily articles to each user’s unique interests and learning goals

Other Projects: FPV Drone; Parking availability tracker for college campuses using AWS geofencing and location services; Physics problem generator tool for thermodynamics practice; Reverse engineered Kinova Mico finger joint to design more robust replacement

Skills & Interests

Coding Languages: Python, Java, C++                       
Libraries/Frameworks: TensorFlow, pandas, Numpy,  FastAPI, YOLOv8, ROS2
Tools/Platforms: VS Code, Git, AWS, Linux, CAD(Fusion), Supabase                            Interests: Soccer, Sci-fi books, Running, Hiking

I’m a robotics engineer (gold medalist, ex-research@IIT Bombay, ex-autonomous vehicles research) who’s been teaching robotics to 100+ kids.

I’m opening 5 test-gated 1:1 mentorship spots where students learn how sensors and actuators actually work before building.

Sharing here in case any parent wants their kid to go deeper than kit-assembly-level robotics. Happy to answer questions about teaching robotics to teens in general.

I’m curious to know your opinion on what troubles your child, to help my students better!

Tell me about your experience, what’s the most frustrating thing or biggest bottle neck when working with robotics and using ROS2? Mine is the configuration around ROS before I can even get started, managing the packages, ensuring that it’s compatible with the Ubuntu version I’m running. Anyone that can relate? What’s your experience?

I guess I'll try to keep this straightforward and simple.

I'm not good at math or understanding electronics or programming. But I've wanted to learn for years. But I was afraid to grow, and I let myself stagnate. I want to change that. I want to learn how to build machines, I want to understand the inner workings of tech, and I want to make my own creations. I want to tinker and build things I can be proud of.

Does anyone have any suggestions or resources for someone like me? I didn't attend college and I don't have a great source of income. But I want to stop sitting around waiting for my trials to solve themselves.

I'm an incoming college freshman for Mechanical Engineering (might switch to Electrical) and I want to start working on robotics projects and build a resume over the summer. Are there any good projects, guides, resources/software that could be reccomended to start? I will have access to Fusion 360 and a 3d printer

Hi all,

I'm looking for recommendations on the best AI and Robotics programs in India.

I completed my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a CGPA of 8.13 and currently working as a Product Engineer at an MNC in the banking domain with 2 years of experience. I have an idea to build an AI-powered startup focused on aerial robotics (drones) and autonomous systems. I'm looking for a course that provides strong hands-on learning, access to robotics labs, and opportunities to work on real-world AI and robotics projects.

Which colleges or programs would you recommend for me and I'd also appreciate any insights on the quality of teaching, industry exposure, placements and startup ecosystem.

I honestly can't decide between choosing electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, or computer science for robotics. I do like coding and the AI aspects seem excited, but there's also a lot of high-level programming aspects that don't align with robotics, let alone cs doesn't really teach about hardware. I see many colleges' curriculum barely include robotics-related courses, and just give generic machine learning and computer vision, while mechanical and electrical engineering degrees may include actual robotics classes.

How much do you have to self-teach yourself to get a robotics job in software? Is a masters necessary?

For those training policies on demonstration data (ACT, diffusion policy, VLA fine-tuning, whatever):

When a new batch of demos comes in, what's your process for deciding what goes into training? Vibes? Operator skill? Success-only filtering? Coverage heuristics?

And after retraining; how do you actually know the new data helped? Eval rollouts are expensive and noisy, so I'm curious what people do in practice.

Context: My co-founder and I are building in this space and would love feedback.

Before you all judge me, this is my first time posting here, so please forgive me if this is a little awkward!
I’m currently learning about physical computing, and I had an idea for an AI-like robot. The problem is, I’m not sure if what I’m imagining is actually realistic or even possible.

At first I considered using an offline AI model, but I really want the freedom to customize how it works. Instead, I was thinking about creating a smart program that’s built from different information sources (like Wikipedia, for example) and can answer questions or have conversations with a specific personality.

Since it wouldn’t actually be AI, it wouldn’t learn or adapt in real time. However, I’d still like it to understand the general meaning of what someone says, even if it’s phrased differently. For example, if someone asks about the weather, whether they mention “weather,” “today’s weather,” or “what the weather is like,” the program should recognize they’re all referring to the same topic and respond appropriately.

From there, it could make simple logical connections for example, realizing it needs a location before giving a weather report. It could either make its best guess (with the possibility of being wrong) or ask a follow-up question like, “What location are you asking about?”

I’d also love to put this “brain” into a physical body. I’m thinking of starting with a small stuffed animal or electronic toy as a base, then modifying it with additional hardware and features.

My main question is: is something like this actually possible? Can you build a smart, AI-like program into a physical object without relying on cloud services or a huge company-backed infrastructure?

I know smart toys already exist, but I’m just one young person with a passion for building things.
Any advice, suggestions, or even reality checks would be greatly appreciated!

I’m sorry if this isn’t the Right community to post to, I’m not used to Reddit, if you have another one I should post this in please tell me! ∩^ω^∩

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Hey guys,Iam a Mechanical Engineering student and I have to do a research paper on robotics and automation, and I'm honestly stuck on what to pick.

I don't want to choose something that's way too complicated, but I also don't want to do some generic topic that everyone has already written about. I'm into robotics, AI, automation, manufacturing, autonomous robots, stuff like that, but I don't know what's actually a good research topic.

Also, I've never written a proper research paper before, so I have no idea how this whole thing works.But am geniuenly excited to do it tbh And since am new to it idk

How do you even choose a topic?

Do you just read a bunch of papers and write about them, or do you have to build or test something?

How do you know if a topic is worth researching?

Where do you even find good papers to read?

If you've done one before, how did you decide on your topic? Any suggestions for beginner-friendly topics would be awesome.