04/06/10 — The only university to award a bachelor’s degree in robotics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute will now become the first university with bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programs. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will become the only university to offer bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in robotics engineering with the addition of a PhD program starting this fall. WPI was the first university to offer a bachelor’s degree program in robotics engineering; a master’s program in the discipline was launched in 2009. Now WPI will be just the third U.S. university to offer a doctoral program in this emerging field. “We are at the…

03/18/09 — Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has announced it will launch a master’s degree program in Robotics Engineering this fall. The new program will be taught primarily by teachers in other departments, at WPI, which established the country’s first bachelor’s degree in robotics engineering in 2006 As many as 30 faculty and staff will contribute time to administer and teach classes in the new program; they will come primarily the Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering departments. The program, which requires 36 credit hours of class time plus a thesis or capstone engineering project at completion, was developed with…