rsn@mtuxo.att.com (XMRH2-S.NAGARAJ) (10/17/88)
I am still getting e-mail for the above request. Since the number of requests were quite a few, I decided that I would post a summary of responses to my reuest seeking names of US universities offering graduate degrees in Robotics. The list (summary) provided below is a partial list since there was considrable duplication in the info that I received. Raj Nagaraj > Add the University Of Southern California to the list. It's Computer Eng department offers a combined degree in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and the Computer Eng dept is ranked #3 in the nation by IEEE. I know I'm a biased alumnus :-) < > Raj, I have been working in Robotics for a few years, and from what what I know, there is now univ. that offers a degree in Robotics although following institutions have very strong programs and research in Robotics. MIT, Stanford, CMU, Purdue, Univ. Of. Michigan, RPI, USC, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Univ. Penn. P.S.: Above list is by no means the final word on standing of various schools in Robotics and there may even be some < Columbia University Computer Science Department has a very active and prominent Robotics group > You might want to check out the University of Texas at Arlington... (Dallas Fort Worth, Tx area). When I was a grad student there several years ago, they got a *LARGE* grant to start a robotics facility, with specific staffing in robotics. Don't know what the status is now, though. < > try carnegie-mellon. < > One university is, Carnegie Mellon University through the dept of Civil engineering. The address is Dept of Civil engg Porter Hall Carnegie Mellon Univ Pittsburgh PA 15213 < > You'll probably get this suggestion from others: check out Cornell. The Robotics program here is very strong, the project headed by John Hopcroft (1986 Turing Award). The emphasis seems to be on solid modeling, motion planning and machine vision (judged by faculty representation -- the project also supports some research associates each year who expand the scope of subjects). Disclaimer: I'm not even in Robotics, I'm in machine learning and I know they're doing good robotics work! < > I saw the list posted on the bulletin board in the Electrical Engineering department a while back, so I don't remember. However some of the schools with the top comp eng/electrical eng departments were : Bekerley Stanford USC MIT UCLA Caltech I don't remember the rest. <