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We offer you this moment of inspiration for National Robotics Week.

A student from Togo, Sam TODO, has succeeded in creating a robot prototype with some used television parts.

The imagination knows no limits. Even without the financial means.

His robot is called SAM10.

Sam wants to try to make it fully autonomous with obstacle detectors and give it the possibility of greeting people it meets and integrating with them.

This young man’s goal is also to arouse interest in sciences and robotics in Africa, a continent where according to him too few people are interested in sciences.

Sam Todo deserves to be hired by a robotics company or receive funding assistance for his research.

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Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) near Boston will be the third university in the US to offer a PhD in Robotics Engineering.

In fact, WPI already offers a bachelor’s degree in robotics engineering (‘baccalauréat’ in Canada, ‘bachelor’ in the US). What’s more, it will now be the only one to offer a master’s program in robotics engineering (since 2009) as well as a PhD (all three at the same time).

We are at the start of a new age of robotics (“We are at the start of a new age of robotics“) said WPI’s provost.

The demand is definitely there and the years to come will witness yet more and more need for human resources in the robotics industry, such as engineers, roboticists, researchers and entrepreneurs.

A little like computer science in the 80s and 90s, soon robotics will become the fast track to employment.

Robotics Engineering at WPI: www.wpi.edu/Academics/Majors/RBE/

For courses currently available in France, see pages 40 to 44 of the magazine Planète Robots no3.

For Quebec, see the presentation (French) ‘Robotics Experts in Quebec’ by Sam Bouchard.

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