Job prospects in Robotics

What are the job prospects in Robotics?

• There are vast opportunities in both India and abroad.

• The various opportunities are:

- Manufacturing of line robots

- building robots for military, medical and automotive industries

• Some of the engineers are also consumed in by the labs, plants, mining areas, gaming sector and space exploration centres.

• You can also opt for teaching in this field.


• Some of the job specializations are:

- controls engineer
- manufacturing process engineer
- mechanical design engineer
- computer engineer
- automation engineer

• The use of robots is expected to increase in the coming future, hence creating more opportunities.

• Robotics engineering may lead to potential career opportunities in manufacturing, research and engineering, agriculture, mining, space exploration, power-plant maintenances and a variety of other areas.

• There is vast scope for qualified researchers to associate themselves with different segments of R & D in robotics.

• Most robotics engineers are employed by private robot manufacturers or robot users.

• A student who has an M.E. degree in Robotics can get job opportunities in space research organizations like ISRO.

• Job opportunities also exist in Indian Institute of Technology for doing extensive research work in artificial intelligence.

• Furthermore, The Indian Institute of Chemical Biology offers openings for research fellowships in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

• In India, organisations like BHEL, BARC, ISRO and DRDO besides other companies like Tata and Jindal’s do recruit robotic engineers.

• NASA is the ultimate destination and a dream for a robotics engineer.

• Some of the job profiles are:
- Sales
- Trainers
- Analysts
- Researcher
- Supervisors
- Robotics Technicians
- Robotics Test Engineers
- Robotics System Engineer
- Senior Robotics Specialist