Top Universities in the US for Robotics

Top Universities in the US for Robotics

I discussed the different fields in Robotics, in this post let's look into the best universities that provide quality Robotics specialisation.

The way I have gone about shortlisting these universities are,

1. Looked into the research areas of Professors who have done significant progress in their respective fields of Robotics.
2. Looked into Robotics competitions conducted by NASA and shortlisted the finalists in the last 5 years.

As I always say, it is not the university or the department that matters the most, what matters is the Professor under whom you are going to work. I strongly believe your advisor has a great influence on what your future is going to be, thus this approach.

I have picked the best universities for each subfield, take a look at it.

The first one is swarm robotics – (No particular order of superiority followed)

1. MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Prof. Daniela Rus

2. Stanford University – Prof. Mac Schwager

3. University of Pennsylvania – Prof. Vijay Kumar

4. University of Colorado – Boulder – Prof. Nikolaus Correll

5. Harvard University – Prof. Radhika Nagpal

6. Northwestern University – Prof. Mike Rubinstein

7. Arizona State University – Prof. Spring Berman

8. Texas A&M – Prof. Dylan Shell

Top 7 Space Robotics Universities: This list is based upon the performance of teams in NASA’s NASCAL Competitions

1. MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. University of Pennsylvania
3. University of Maryland – College park
4. Georgia Institute of Technology
5. University of Colorado – Boulder
6. University of Southern California
7. Drexel University

Top 20 Universities that specialise in Legged locomotion, Personal Robotics, Artificial Intelligent machines, Nano-robotics and etc are listed below. I have also listed the faculty profile and the different departments, check them out and see if they match your area of interest

1. Carnegie Mellon University
2. MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   1. Locomotion – Legged Robotics
   2. Bio-mimetic Robotics
   3. Field and Space Robotics
   4. Comp Sci & Artificial Intelligence
   5. Robotics Team
   6. Personal Robots
3. University of Pennsylvania
   1. Vijay Kumar – http://www.kumarrobotics.org/
   2. Mark Yim – https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/people/mark-yim
   3. Dan Koditchek – http://kodlab.seas.upenn.edu/Main/HomePage
   4. Katherine Kuchenbecker – https://www.grasp.upenn.edu/people/katherine-kuchenbecker
4. Georgia Institute of Technology
5. University of Colorado – Boulder
   1. Autonomous Robotics & Perception Group
   2. Robotics & Systems Design
   3. Smart materials meets robotics
6. University of Southern California
   1. NASCAL
   2. Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems
   3. Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center
7. Stanford University
   1. Stanford Artificial Intelligent Robot – STAIR
   2. Stanford Robotics Lab
8. University fo Michigan – Ann Arbor
9. Columbia University
10. Cornell University
11. Harvard University
    1. Harvard Robotics Lab
    2. Harvard Agile Robotics Lab
    3. Harvard Bio design Lab
    4. Harvard Bio-Robotics Lab
12. University of Maryland
13. University of Washington – Seattle
14. Oregon State University
15. University of California Los Angeles
    1. Bionics Lab
    2. Robotics & Mechanism Lab
    3. Bio mechatronics Lab
    4. Robotics Home
16. Washington University St. Louis
    1. Mechatronics & Robotics
    2. Robotics and Motion Laboratory
17. John Hopkins University
18. California Institute of Technology
19. University of California – Berkley
    1. Robotics Home
    2. Control, Intelligent Systems & Robotics
    3. Berkeley Robotics & Human Engineering Lab
20. University of California – Santa Barbara

That is a pretty exhaustive list of universities.

My team has put together the top 40 robotics universities, you can get access to the google sheets from here.

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